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Gum 0.7.2 delivers more bang for your buck

Posted on by aalmiray

A bang, like in JBang! That’s right, JBang is the new kid on the block in the Java command line tool space. Initially taking advantage of JEP-330 that enhances the Java launcher to support single source files, JBang builds on top of that idea and adds dependency resolution, JShell integration, launch executable JARs, launch scripts from trusted URLs, and a few other goodies. In other words, JBang is not constrained by JEP-330 (which requires Java 11) as it also let’s you run scripts with Java 8. Taking a hint from Gradle and Maven, JBang also adds a wrapper to help Read More

Gum 0.4.0 latest tricks

Posted on by aalmiray

Gum 0.4.0 is out and it comes with a few goodies! If you’re like me you may see yourself switching between Maven and Gradle projects, a lot. This constant switching makes it very likely that I’ll mess up the command invocation and send Maven goals to a Gradle project, or send Gradle tasks to a Maven project. This results in a wasted JVM iteration as the command fails. But what if there was a way to make it work given certain mappings? What if Maven’s compile goal could be translated into Gradle’s classes or viceversa? What if these mappings were Read More

Why do the Gradle/Maven wrappers matter?

Posted on by aalmiray

Indeed, why do these tool exist and why should I use them? After all installing Gradle or Maven is a simple task. Just download a ZIP file, configure an environment variable and voilà! Or use a package manager such as SdkMan! Well to understand these questions we must travel back in time, to a moment when Gradle was just getting started and Maven 3 was just a few months of being released. Gradle’s inception happened sometime in late 2007. In comparison Maven was at 2.0.7 or 2.0.8 (see history of Maven release notes). Everyone knew Maven at that time but Read More

Gum: the Gradle/Maven wrapper

Posted on by aalmiray

I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of Gum, a Gradle/Maven wrapper written in Go. Gum is inspired on the popular gdub script by Doug Borg, which was ported to Go by Sten Roger Sandvik some time ago. The main difference from Sten’s version is that Gum also supports the Maven wrapper, coming up as part of Maven core 3.7! The basic idea behind Gum is to prefer the tool wrapper over the plain tool, if the wrapper is configured. It also allows you invoke the build tool from any place withing the project’s codebase. There are a few additions Read More

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