Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "This class exposes just one method called greet which we can use to generate a greeting message."

A block of code is set as follows:

task helloWorld << {
  println "Hello, World!"
} 

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ gradle --version

Or it may be written as follows:

> gradle --version

Whenever some output or code block is truncated it is denoted by an ellipsis (...) like this:

$ gradle tasks
...
Other tasks
-----------
helloWorld
...

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Once the Submit button is pressed, we'll get the desired result."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.