Gradle Ex Machina

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Claims a Maven‑style, top‑down convention layer is achievable on Gradle by using Coraline Gradle plugins to provide an opinionated DSL (info, scm, license, publications), build‑info, aggregated JaCoCo and javadoc/sources tasks, and enriched console reporting. Demo shows a published parent plugin that injects defaults into child projects and an effective settings command that reveals inherited values; the demo reports 33 plugins applied and runs tests and aggregated reports successfully, proving the approach works.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:27build.gradle
3. 7:51The project plugin
4. 8:54Provided behavior
5. 11:10Default tasks
6. 21:03The Maven super POM
7. 21:23The Gradle super POM
8. 24:57Standard (gradle)
9. 27:45Multi-level (gradle)

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