Gradle Glam: Plugins Galore
Track
Core Java, Frameworks & Servers
Date and time
Friday, 20. May 2016., 09:00
Room
Hall A
Duration
45'
Plugins! Plugins! Plugins! Gradle can do awesome things by itself but you get more bang when you combine your build with plugins. In this talk we’ll discover how to keep dependencies nice and tidy with dependency-management and versions; update license headers with license; discover all the possibilities of binary packages with shadow, izpack and osspackage; find out binary incompatibilities between releases with clirr and japicmp; write great documentation with asciidoctor and jbake. These and more are up for grabs, come discover how to make the most of your gradle build with less effort.
Lecture details
About speaker
Andres Almiray, author
Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and Java Champion, with more than 16 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application developments since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include Groovy, Swing and JavaFX. He is a true believer of open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph). Founding member and current project lead of the Griffon framework. He blogs at http://jroller.com/aalmiray. You can find him on twitter too as @aalmiray. He likes to spend time with his beloved wife, Ixchel, when not hacking around.
Ixchel Ruiz, coauthor
Ixchel has developed software application & tools since 2000. Her research interests include dynamic languages, testing and client-side technologies. Systems Administration (*nix on the top), Data Modeling and IA are among her career passions. She is a believer in open source and has participated in some projects (Json-lib and EZMorph), she is also a Groovy enthusiast, participating in several conferences and JUG meetings where the topic arises. She has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico.
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