Would you be surprised to learn that 82.5 percent of Java developers responding to a recently conducted survey said they favor the JUnit testing framework? Or that 70 percent reported an affinity for ...

I left JavaOne 2011 with several take-aways. One of the most significant was a renewed interest in learning more about Gradle. In this post, I look at using Gradle and at migrating a simple Ant build ...

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 ...

Java developers can now run Gradle builds with JDK 11. The latest milestone release of the popular open source build automation tool (Gradle 5.0) also comes with a production-ready Kotlin DSL, ...