These slides show the latest features and plans for the Eclipse Buildship tooling, which provides Gradle support for the Eclipse IDE

1. Eclipse Buildship
Simon Scholz
https://twitter.com/simonscholz

2. What is Gradle?
● Buildtool (Concepts of both Ant and Maven)
● Groovy based DSL instead of XML
● Multi-project builds
● Incremental Build
● Lots of Plugins
➔ apply plugin: 'java'
➔ https://plugins.gradle.org/
● Polyglot Builds

3. What is Buildship?
● New Gradle tooling in Eclipse from Gradleware
– Updatesite:
http://download.eclipse.org/buildship/updates/snapshots
– Oomph based Setup
– https://github.com/eclipse/buildship

4. Sample Gradle script
● gradle init --type 'java-library'
apply plugin: 'java'
repositories {
jcenter()
mavenCentral()
ivy {
url "http://repo.mycompany.com/repo"
}
}
dependencies {
compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.12'
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
}

5. Gradle Wrapper
● Project may contain a Gradle wrapper
● Linux / Mac
➢ gradlew
● Windows
➢ gradlew.bat
./gradlew build

6. New Gradle Project Wizard

7. The new Gradle Project in
Package Explorer

8. Import Gradle Project

9. Gradle Task View

10. Execution View and it's popup-menu

11. Jump to test file and see test
summary

12. Gradle Run Configuration

13. Future Plans
● Task favorites
● Run Configuration history in Task View
● Components View
● Plugins View
● Run configuration in debug mode
● Gradle Editor
● Gradle Perspective for Buildmasters
● ...”AndMore”... ;)

14. Detailed Information
● https://github.com/eclipse/buildship
● http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipseGradle
● https://gradle.org/blog/

15. Do not miss the Eclipse HackathonEclipse Hackathon
24.07.2015 18:00
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Hackathon_Hamburg_2015_Q3

16. Thank you for your
attention!
Simon Scholz
https://twitter.com/simonscholz