Following up on the previous post that explains how to setup the OCI Gradle Build Cache plugin on Travis-CI today I’d like to show how to do the same with GitHub Actions. The steps to follow are quite similar; if you do not already have an OCI account and/or a configured compartment then please follow steps 1, 2, and 3 as explained in this post, then proceed with the next steps Step 4: Apply the plugin to your project Paste the following into your settings.gradle file Notice that the location of the config file is local to the project. There’s Read More
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Configuring the OCI Gradle Build Cache plugin with Travis-ci
The following post describes how to configure the oci-gradle-build-cache plugin to write to the cache when running on Travis-ci. I’m assuming dear reader that you have an Oracle Cloud account ready, but if that were not to be the case then you can sign up for an Always Free tier account at https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/. Let’s get started! Step 1: Create a config file There are a couple of ways to configure the plugin, we’ll use a configuration file whose format is specified at this page; you must gather the following information from your account tenancy id user id default home region Read More
Running Gradle inside Maven
As organizations evolve so do their codebases. Apache Maven and Gradle are the most popular and widely used build tools in the JVM. Usually multi-project builds rely on a single build tool to accomplish the job but there may be uses cases where you need to combine both, having Maven be the one leading the pack. One possible use case is to build a companion Gradle plugin, this is the case for ByteBuddy and Quarkus; another use case is to run a composite build with Maven and Gradle projects mixed together. In this post I’ll show how Gradle can be Read More
Hack.Commit.Push Paris 2019
I’m so excited to share what happened at Hack.Commit.Push Paris 2019. It’s said that an image speaks louder than words, so here it is Success! The event transcurred as follows as far as I remember (we event organizers participated in the hacks too thus we ended up jumping from one place to the next, fun!). We arrived in the morning to help setup the venue and get ready for registration, just to find out that Florent, Dilek, Hervé, and Michael had made the necessary preparations already, there were so eager to get started that they beat us to the punch. Read More
Announcing oci-gradle-plugin version 0.1.0
The first release of the OCI Gradle Plugin is out! The plugin lets you interact with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Java SDK. The behavior provided by OCI Java SDK is quite extensive, thus for this release the plugin delivers the minimal features required to setup and work with instances. Here’s an example, the following command will setup an Instance in a particular Compartment, while at the same time setting up a new VCN, Subnets, an InternetGateway and an InstanceConsoleConnection, allowing you to SSH to the freshly created instance $ ./gradlew setupInstance \ –compartment-id=ocid1.compartment.oc1…noa \ –instance-name=test \ –image=Oracle-Linux-7.6-2019.04.18-0 \ –shape=VM.Standard2.1 \ Read More
Hack.Commit.Push
Last month I twitted a rather cryptic message Hack — Andres Almiray (@aalmiray) March 1, 2019 Commit — Andres Almiray (@aalmiray) March 2, 2019 Push — Andres Almiray (@aalmiray) March 2, 2019 Followed by another one hack.commit.push — Andres Almiray (@aalmiray) March 8, 2019 Today I’m happy to announce the meaning behind these messages: http://hack-commit-pu.sh, the first ever, full day Hackergarten conference is open! If you have attended a Hackergarten before then you know what to expect, if not then let me say a few words about Hackergarten. The group was born in Basel, Switzerland back in 2010. The point Read More
Amazon Corretto 8 & JavaFX
Back in November 2018 the Father of Java, James Gosling, took to the stage during the Devoxx BE opening keynote and announced that Amazon was working on their own JDK based on OpenJDK. You may remember also last year the Java Champions along with all JDK vendors put together a document stating the different options at your disposal to run Java for free and/or with paid support. Java is Still Free English Spanish Portuguese Japanese Today is the day when Amazon announced the immediate availability of Amazon Corretto 8. Why is this good news? Because Amazon has stated they will Read More
Gaining insight into a Gradle build
Every Gradle build has access to a default set of tasks that can deliver insight information on your build settings. You probably have come across the dependencies task. This task can display dependencies associated with all configurations of a particular project; you can even instruct which configuration to be queried if the list of configurations happens to be very long. Let’s say we have a Java project that looks like this build.gradle plugins { id ‘java’ id ‘org.kordamp.gradle.project’ version ‘0.11.0’ } ext.build_property = ‘build’ config { license { enabled = false } publishing { enabled = false } } repositories Read More
5 Gradle plugins for working with modular Java projects
Java 9 was release in September 2017 and with it came a brand new modular platform known as JPMS, delivered by Project Jigsaw. Building projects that an leverage this new feature can be a bit daunting however the Gradle plugins in the following list can help you in keeping things under control. 1. JDeps – https://github.com/aalmiray/jdeps-gradle-plugin This plugin generates a report of your production code and compile/runtime dependencies using the jdeps tool available since Java 8. Jdeps can tell you if your codebase is vulnerable to API changes such as relying on internal APIs (like sun.misc.Unsafe) even if you don’t Read More
The Gradle SuperPOM
Following up with the Gradle POM, where a familiar structure found in Maven projects can be brought to Gradle projects, I’d like to discuss another Maven feature that many see as an advantage and that’s lacking in Gradle: the ability to enforce settings in a top-down fashion with hierarchical POM files. In Maven, a parent POM delivers configuration that will be used by a child POM as is. Children POMs have the option to override and extend these properties. A typical use case in parent POMs is to provide <pluginManagement> and <dependencyManagement> sections; they also configure default dependencies, properties, plugins, Read More