There are numerous ways in which Groovy can be applied to build Java-based applications. These building approaches range from invoking commands like javac and jar directly from Groovy code to ...

Hadoop has gotten itself another big-name contributor in the shape of business-oriented social network LinkedIn Corp., which has just made the LinkedIn Gradle Plugin for Apache Hadoop available on ...

Ant has been widely celebrated as the future of build processing. In fact, it represents a great improvement over previous make tools: it is extendible, multiplatform, and standard-based. Some Ant ...

To appreciate the benefits of Gradle, it helps to understand where it came from. When Gradle was first released in 2007, the Java ecosystem had already established several viable tools. Ant emerged in ...