Difference between Maven and Gradle in Java

 

Difference between Maven and Gradle in Java

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Maven is a build automation tool mostly for Java projects. It's a great tool, but it has one important drawback that has motivated the creation of similar tools, like Gradle and SBT. That weakness is its verbosity of configuration. Maven gets all project build parameters from pom.xml, an XML file that can get very long.

I think Gradle solves this problem more elegantly, where you can inject common dependencies rather than inherit them.

This tends to give better control and flexibility.

It seems analogous to composition (Gradle) vs. inheritance (Maven) ;-)

Is there a way to specify only select elements to include from a parent POM?

It's not possible, in Maven. But why would you need that? All elements defined in jcabi-parent POM are "optional". When you inherit our pom.xml and don't use them, they won't get into your project.

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