Over the Ant Hill to Gradle
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Large Java codebase of 1,000+ modules migrates from Ant to Gradle to speed developer feedback and shorten release cadence to four weeks. Team maps dependency graph into components, uses Gradle features: incremental build, build cache, parallel execution, upgrades Gradle and bnd, adds internal proxies to avoid rate limits and OWASP DB failures, and uses Beyond Compare for jar diffs. Build times drop from 26 to 17 minutes for full local builds; CI goes from 3.5 hours to 90 minutes by reusing previous outputs and targeting tests among 50,000.
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