Two Day Gradle Training - Next Gen Build System coming Oct 11-12th to Atlanta (JUG Discount)

TWO DAY GRADLE TRAINING with Hans Dockter, creator of Gradle

Date: 		October 11-12th
City:		Atlanta
Venue:		Hyatt Place Perimeter Center
URL:		http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/training/home?id=8
Discount: 	$50 off JUG Members, use promo code: nfjsusergroup50
Offers:		Register 4 individuals, get a 5th pass free! & Special  
Registration package including NFJS pass

Early Bird Rate:  $1,250/person thru September 27th

Gradle (www.gradle.org) Training Overview:
In this intensive and highly practical 2-day Gradle course, you will  
become familiar with all major concepts of Gradle and how to best use  
Gradle for simple as well as complex build scenarios. This course is  
packed with hands-on exercises. You will learn about the basic  
language elements of the Gradle Domain Specific Language (DSL), how to  
use Gradle's build-by-convention for plain Java and Java web projects,  
and how to use the Gradle plugin system. You will find out how easy it  
is to customize your build. You will learn about Gradle's mighty  
dependency management. And much more ...


Gradle Training Course Description:
Gradle Introduction
What is Gradle
Some background information about the Gradle project
Installing Gradle
Using Gradle via the command-line, the stand alone GUI and the IDE.
Gradle build scripts
A very short introduction to Groovy
The Core of Gradle - A general purpose build system
Background: Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) - The heart of (almost)  
every build system.
How to work with Gradle tasks
How to create custom task types.
Task Dependencies
Smart merging when executing multiple tasks.
Smart exclusion.
How to access and work with the DAG.
Hooking into the Gradle build lifecycle.
Using the Gradle logging infrastructure.
Introduction to Plugins
How do Gradle plugins work.
The different ways of applying plugins to your build.
Writing your own plugin.
A short overview of available plugins.
Gradle and the File System
The mighty copy functionality.
Archive handling
Custom Gradle file types: FileTree and FileCollection
Using Ant from Gradle
The relationship between Ant and Gradle.
Using Ant tasks.
Deep import of Ant projects.
Dependency Management
Overview.
Accessing Maven and Ivy repositories.
Transitive dependency handling.
Using repository-less dependencies.
Publishing artifacts.
Maven Integration
Pom generation and customization.
Publishing to a Maven repository.
The Maven2Gradle converter.
Gradle's Deep API
Gradle's domain objects are extensible.
How to avoid global properties with dynamic properties.
Powerful construction rules for Tasks, Dependencies, ...
Gradle's Rich Model for Inputs and Outputs.
Gradle's autowiring of task dependencies.
Buildable File Collections.
Automatic validation of task properties.
Declaring your inputs and outputs.
Incremental Build
Working with Source Sets
What are source set's and why we love them.
Declaring and configuring source sets.
Using the source set API.
The Java Plugin
The Java Plugin tasks: Clean, Javadoc, Compile, Archives
Configuring test tasks (A truly rich API in action).
Task Rules
What are task rules.
Working with task rules.
The Gradle Way
The declarative nature of Gradle.
Avoiding rigidity.
Providing a build language vs. being a framework.
All requirements are equal: Custom declarative elements.
XML, Groovy and putting lipstick on a pig.
Multi-Project Builds
Configuration Injection
Filtered Injection
Project Dependencies
Gradle follows your layout not vice versa.
Task and Project paths
Lifecycle Tasks and partial builds.
Reports
The settings.gradle
How to organize your Build Logic
Best practices.
Using jars, build sources or script plugins in your build script.
The gradle.properties
Init scripts.
The Gradle Wrapper
Why and when to use the Gradle wrapper.
Applying the wrapper to your build.

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