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Does Gradle need build profile support?

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The need for customizing a build based on a particular environment is a prevalent one. Maven offers an option called build profiles which lets you customize certain aspects of the build but not all. However on the Gradle side of things, there’s no such feature found in core, with the argument being that contrasted to what Maven offers as means for defining build files (a limited XML based DSL), Gradle offers not one but two DSLs based on full programming languages. This allows developers use the same control flows they’re used to in production and test code but on build Read More

Announcing the PomChecker project

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I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of the PomChecker suite! What is it you ask? It’s a small set of utilities to verify that a POM or BOM file complies with the minimum requirements for being uploaded to Maven Central. I wish an utility like this existed years ago when I started publishing artifacts to Maven Central. It took me a few tries in the beginning to get the POM files just right. Recently I’ve seen other developers struggling with these rules as well. Hopefully these utilities can help them and others get on the road much faster. There Read More

Configuring the OCI Gradle Build Cache plugin with GitHub Actions

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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

Configuring the OCI Gradle Build Cache plugin with Travis-ci

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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