After gradually collecting more and more experience with Gradle via the Hibernate Core build, I decided prepare a final showdown. As a reminder, Hibernate ORM switched as of version 4 from Maven to Gradle for a variety of reasons. Taking these reasons on board, I tried to compare Maven vs Gradle incorporating some of the lessons learned. I presented the results at Jfokus 2012. If you are interested here are the slides[1].
Bottom line, if you are already using maven and have no issues or if you are building simple artifacts stick to Maven. If you have problems with things like:
- Scripting
- Rector builds
- Assembly creation (release bundle creation)
- (Javadocs) Aggregation
- Grouping of dependencies
you might want to consider Gradle.
--Hardy
