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Java Spring Basics Introduction and Setting up Our Development Tools Overview of Gradle to Manage Dependencies

Mustafa Ogün Öztürk
Mustafa Ogün Öztürk
3,468 Points
Posted by Mustafa Ogün Öztürk
Mustafa Ogün Öztürk
3,468 Points

Gradle vs Maven

Hi

I have been searching internet for a while and i ve seen that a lot of people use Maven as a dependency manager while working with Spring.

So I just wonder that why Treehouse uses Gradle over Maven.

Thanks for your answers.

1 Answer

Livia Galeazzi
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Livia Galeazzi
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Livia Galeazzi
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I can only guess, but I think it's simply that it's a lot easier to understand a build.gradle file than a pom.xml file for a beginner. Lots of people start here with 0 programming knowledge and might not be familiar with xml at all, it makes the learning curve less steep to avoid throwing that particular ball at them right away. Another factor might have been that Gradle was picked by Google as the official build tool for Android. It was probably easier to stick to one java build tool in the main tracks, allowing students to transfer their knowledge more easily.

That said, there is a workshop on Maven. It's a good idea to have both tools in your toolkit anyway. https://teamtreehouse.com/library/building-with-maven