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 ...

Gradle plugins are just classes that extend Plugin. Most of our plugins are written directly in Java (for better or worse), not Groovy, so this code may not look exactly like the Gradle tutorials. I ...

I am new to Gradle (and not familiar with Ant, Maven,...) but an expert in Java coding. Is there any tutorial for building NetBeans Platform CRUD using Gradle similar to these Ant and Maven tutorials?