Gradle

Gradle is (a lot) better than Maven.

• Gradle User Manual
• Gradle Build Language Reference

Problem: Gradle uses all 32 threads of your CPU, and that hurts…

No problem. Set the max workers option.

On the command-line:

./gradlew --max-workers 8 some-massivly-parrallel-gradle-task

In the ${HOME}/.gradle/gradle.properties file:

org.gradle.workers.max=8

Plugins

• Java plugin (dependency configurations)
• Java library plugin (configurations)
• War plugin (dependency management)

Maven scopes vs. gradle configurations

Source

Maven scopes don’t translate perfectly to Gradle configurations because Gradle configurations are more granular. However, here’s a table that translates between Maven scopes and Gradle configurations with a few notes about differences:

Maven Scope	Equivalent Gradle Configuration
compile	api if the dependency should be exposed to consumers, implementation if not
provided	compileOnly (note that the provided Maven scope is also available at runtime while the compileOnly Gradle configuration is not)
runtime	runtimeOnly
test	testImplementation