Building UIMA AEs with Gradle?

[Jens Grivolla <j+...@grivolla.net>]

Hi,

we are sometimes running into problems with Maven when we want to define 
tasks to move resources into specific locations, etc. This seems to 
often lead to having to use quite a few Maven plugins and makes the POM 
hard to manage.

Would Gradle be a better option, in order to have the dependency 
management from Maven while being able to more easily define custom 
manipulations of resources to help with packaging? Is it possible to 
generate PEAR packages from Gradle? There are afaik plugins for Maven 
and Ant, so would we then reference an Ant task from Gradle?

Thanks,
Jens

Re: Building UIMA AEs with Gradle?

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

I haven't used Gradle, so I don't have a real opinion.

One thing that is quite easy is to write your own specialized Maven plugin, to
encapsulate exactly what you want as the "conventional" way, and have whatever
"configuration" you wish.

-Marshall

On 5/28/2013 12:29 PM, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we are sometimes running into problems with Maven when we want to define tasks
> to move resources into specific locations, etc. This seems to often lead to
> having to use quite a few Maven plugins and makes the POM hard to manage.
>
> Would Gradle be a better option, in order to have the dependency management
> from Maven while being able to more easily define custom manipulations of
> resources to help with packaging? Is it possible to generate PEAR packages
> from Gradle? There are afaik plugins for Maven and Ant, so would we then
> reference an Ant task from Gradle?
>
> Thanks,
> Jens
>
>