Gradle provides different in-built plugins to automate the build process. Gradle not only provides different plugins to build a project, but also provides plugins to test the project, for code analysis, for IDE support, for web container support, and so on.
The following are some of the frequently used plugins in different categories. You will find more details on core plugins in the Gradle documentation at https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/userguide.
These plugins also support the testing features to execute Junit and TestNG tests:
The following are the code analysis plugins:
The following are IDE plugins:
These are some of the frequently used plugins. Apart from the core plugins, you can also find third-party plugins at https://plugins.gradle.org/. It allows the publication of binary plugins with the support of the Gradle Plugin Publishing
plugin. Consider spending some time learning how to publish a plugin and how to use the Plugin Publishing
plugin. In the following chapters, we will learn a few core plugins. In the next section, we will explore the Java plugin.
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