Overall Satisfaction with Gradle
I use Gradle when developing Java applications in both professional and personal/academic projects. It is a great tool when building said applications with plug-ins and frameworks available in the community.
- Cross-version compatibility testing
- Inspection of build outcome and output
- Build automatically when sources change
- Continuous build detects changes that occur during build execution
- Ease of use
- Gradle's configuration isn't always intuitive
- Changing a project from Maven to gradle sometimes proves to be a difficult task
- Less time fixing framework compatibility problems
- Less time when changing frameworks or plug-ins
- Maven
Maven is the most popular alternative to Gradle, in my opinion. I think that both have their advantages and disavantages so I would advise people to scan through the documentation and example applications of both tools and choose according to their needs and limitations.