Dabir Kunal - Gradle Essentials

First and foremost, a big thanks to my loving wife, Smita, and adorable son, Nairit. Both of them patiently tolerated me spending countless hours in front of my Mac and never complained. I would like to thank my parents for always doing everything that they could so that I could do what I like. I dedicate this book to Smita, Nairit, Aai, and Baba.

This book would not have been possible without Packt's trust in me. I would like to thank the editors and coordinators from Packt, including Richard, Parita, Priyanka, Rashmi, Madhunikita, and many more. I would also like to thank Abhinandan for providing a helping hand with the project at the time it was required the most. Also, heartfelt thanks to all the reviewers, Andr Burgaud, Eric Berry, Fredrik Sandell, and Micha Huniewicz, for painstakingly reviewing all the chapters and providing detailed feedback.

I am grateful to ThoughtWorks for being such an amazing place where I learned so many things.

Last but not the least, this acknowledgement can not be complete without thanking the folks who made Gradle so awesome, those who built and maintained Groovy, and the Groovy community. Kudos to all for the hard work.

Abhinandan is a Java guy with an extensive experience in software design, architecture, and deployment and automation frameworks. He is passionate about providing solutions for different business needs. His other passions include hiking, reading, and travelling. You can contact him at <>.

Like how a film cannot be made with just actors and directorsit requires lots of different team members' help, who support at different stages until the movie gets released a book can't be written with just the effort of one person or the author. It requires lots of support from different people at different stages, without which it would not be possible to put the thoughts on paper and make it available to the audience.

First and foremost, I would like to thank my family for all the support they gave me throughout this book. They never complained about the weekends and vacations that I compromised while working on this book.

I would like to express my gratitude to the Packt Publishing team (Parita, Purav, and Rashmi), who provided support from the initiation of the idea until the publication of the book. I appreciate that they believed in me and provided me the opportunity to become the co-author of this book.

I would like to thank the reviewers who helped me to improve the quality of this book.

Thanks to Mainak for the quality input and comments, which helped to complete this book. I could not have done it without you.

Eric Berry is the co-founder and vice president of engineering at Keeply Inc. He graduated in 2003 from Cal Poly Pomona with a BS in computer science, and has more than 11 years of full-stack development experience working for Evite (http://www.evite.com/), eHarmony (http://www.eharmony.com/), and Chegg (http://www.chegg.com/). He was first introduced to Gradle in late 2010 while working at eHarmony, and created Chegg's middle-tier SOA using Gradle for all Java-based projects. As a supporter of open source software, he's the plugin release manager for the jEdit text editor and also the original author of the Gradle-release and Gradle-templates plugins.

He has worked as a senior software engineer at Evite specializing in full-stack, JSP, Servlet, Spring Framework, Hibernate, "web-2.0" JavaScript based frontend.

He has also worked as a senior software engineer at eHarmony specializing in full-stack, Java, Spring, Struts, Groovy, Spring Integration, Jersey.

He has worked as a lead software engineer at Chegg specializing in backend services, Java, Spring, Hibernate, Gradle, Jersey.

Andr Burgaud is a software engineer who is passionate about new technologies, programming languages in general, and Python in particular.

He started in law enforcement where he built up an interest in security. A career change led him to join the telecommunication department of the Gendarmerie headquarters in France; later, he implemented network management systems for Qwest broadband services in Minnesota, USA. He currently leads a software development department at Infinite Campus, focusing on the infrastructure for complex web applications.

During his spare time, he attempts to quench his thirst for technology by exploring programming languages, tools, operating systems, servers, or cloud services; also, he likes attending local meetups or online classes, listening to podcasts, and reading books.