On June 25th I will give a talk on Gradle in Paris at Zenika. It is a free event. The session will be delivered in English.

See: http://www.zenika.com/presentation_gradle.php

Please don't forget to register if you like to attend.

The session is followed by a one-day Gradle training on June 26th (also in English).

On July 29th I will give a talk on Gradle in London at Skills Matter. It is a free event.

See: http://skillsmatter.com/event/java-jee/news-from-the-gradle-build-system

Please don't forget to register if you like to attend.

We are very excited to announce the release of Gradle 0.6. This release comes with major new features, like:

• an improved DSL and a richer domain model.
• many new listeners to customize your build in a very flexible way.
• TestNG support.
• more control over how multiproject builds are executed
• progress reporting for downloading
• a rule engine for creating rule based tasks
• and much more ...

Release notes: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRADLE/Gradle+0.6+Release+Notes
User's guide: http://gradle.org/latest/docs/userguide/userguide.html
Download: http://dist.codehaus.org/gradle/gradle-0.6-all.zip

We are also excited to present Gradle at the Jazoon Conference on June 23.

I'm very excited about presenting Gradle on June 23 at the Jazoon conference. For more details see: http://jazoon.com/en/conference/presentationdetails.html?type=sid&detail=8881

I will give a Gradle presentation at GeeCON (Cracow, Poland) on May 7. For more details see: http://www.geecon.org/site/schedule

I will attend the CITCON 2009 (Continuous Integration and Testing Conference) on April 24-25, 2009. As this is an open spaces conference, there are no regular presentations. I will offer an OpenSpace talk on Gradle and Build Systems. For more details see: http://citconf.com/msp2009/

I will give a Gradle presentation at the JUG Minneapolis on April 23. This is just before the MSP CITCON conference.

For details see: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/citcon/message/861

For the location see: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/citcon/message/866

I will give a Gradle presentation at JAX 2009 on April 22. JAX is the biggest conference for Java enterprise technologies in Europe. For more details, see: http://it-republik.de/jaxenter/jax/sessions/?tid=1215

I will give a presentation on Gradle at JUG Cologne on April 20. JUG Cologne is one of the biggest Java User Groups in Germany. The presentation is part of an evening event, were also Neil Ford will be speaking.

For more details, see: http://87.230.78.21:8080/display/jugc/2009.04.20+Struts2%2C+Gradle%2C+Rock+Star+Programmer%2C+JSF+2

I am giving a presentation on Gradle at TSSJS 2009 in Las Vegas. For more details have a look at: http://javasymposium.techtarget.com/html/tools_tech.html#HDockterGradle

We are very excited to announce the release of Gradle 0.5. This release comes with major new features, like:

• Full support for deployment to Maven repositories (including pom generation)
• Support for generating OSGi bundles
• A Jetty plugin for testing web applications
• Improved logging
• and much more ...

Release notes: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRADLE/Gradle+0.5+Release+Notes
User's guide: http://gradle.org/userguide.html
Download: http://dist.codehaus.org/gradle/gradle-0.5-all.zip

There will be a Gradle session at Devoxx. I will be around at Devoxx for the whole week. Please drop me a line if you are interested in meeting there.

We are also very excited to present Gradle at TheServerSide Java Symposium in March 2009.

For those who haven't come across Gradle yet. Gradle is a new, flexible general purpose build system with a build-by-convention framework a la Maven on top. It uses Apache Ivy under the hood for its dependency management. Its build scripts are written in Groovy.

I'm excited that Devoxx (formerly known as Javapolis) has accepted my talk proposal. I will deliver a Gradle 'Tools In Action' session on Monday, December 8th. I will probably be around there for the whole week. I also plan to set up a Gradle Meet Up as soon as the Devoxx website allows this.

We are happy to announce the release of Gradle 0.4.

New and Noteworthy

• Assemble projects with arbitrary physical locations to a multi-project build. A sub-category of this is the flat layout of an Eclipse multi-project structure.
• Eclipse file generation (including WTP) for Java projects.
• Filter's for requesting dependency files (external libs/ project libs).
• More context in the error logging for common failures

Have a look at our updated roadmap: http://gradle.org/roadmap.html

For those who don't know yet. Gradle is a new, flexible general purpose build system with a build-by-convention framework a la Maven on top. It uses Apache Ivy under the hood for its dependency management. Its build scripts are written in Groovy.

On September 13th, Hans Dockter will give a presentation on Gradle at the berlin.jar conference (http://berlin.jar.jug-bb.de). The presentation will be delivered in German.