About Gradle

Gradle is a build system which provides:

• A very flexible general purpose build tool like Ant.
• Switchable, build-by-convention frameworks a la Maven (for Java and Groovy projects). But we never lock you in!
• Powerful support for multi-project builds.
• Powerful dependency management (based on Apache Ivy).
• Full support for your existing Maven or Ivy repository infrastructure.
• Support for transitive dependency management without the need for remote repositories and pom.xml or ivy.xml files (optional).
• Ant tasks as first class citizens.
• Groovy build scripts.

Our 50+ pages user's guide contains tutorials, a detailed overview and in-depth coverage.

The Gradle project itself is highly automated by its Gradle build. As documented, it runs happily on Teamcity and Bamboo (where Gradle is not pre-installed).