Chapter 2. Creating Gradle Build Scripts
In Gradle, projects and tasks are two important concepts. A Gradle build always consists of one or more projects A project defines some sort of component we want to build. There are no defining rules about what the component is. It can be a JAR file with utility classes to be used in other projects, or a web application to be deployed to the corporate intranet. A project doesn't have to be about building and packaging code; it can also be about doing things such as copying files to a remote server or deployment of applications to servers.
A project has one or more tasks. A task is a small piece of work that is executed when we run a build, for example, compiling source code, packaging code in an archive file, generating documentation, and so on.
In this chapter we will learn how to define a project with tasks and use it as a Gradle build.
