Migrate a maven project to Gradle
I ‘ve been using maven for many years. It's a great build system but you write your build script in XML and you can not write program logic in XML. A workaround, therefore, maven provides the famous maven-plugins
In return with Gradle, you write your build script in groovy or Kotlin. Kotlin and groovy are modern programming languages and have high order functions and other cool features that you can not do with XML.
You have to install Gradle as the first step. You can find the detailed installation steps on https://gradle.org/install/. When you have successfully installed you can create a new feature branch with a name like ‘migrate-to-gradle’ from the existing maven project
Go with your preferred command-line program to the main directory from your project where the pom.xml file is and execute the command: gradle init
This will start the migration progress and the migration guide will ask you the first question to migrate your maven project. Type yes to continue your migration. This will generate all Gradle related files and directories like build.gradle and settings.gradle
You can now check if the migration has successfully finished with executing the command gradle build
This should give the output BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Now, some background information if you come from the maven world the dependencies get downloaded in the directory .gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1 this is the equivalent of the maven directory .m2. I have consolidated a guide for some Gradle plugins that I was using with maven https://github.com/lightblueseas/linuxstuff/wiki/Migration-of-maven-projects-to-gradle
So that's it, folks, I hope your migration to Gradle is easy
