geb VS Maven Wrapper

You could have a look at something like Geb - this is a completely random class I picked:

https://github.com/geb/geb/blob/master/module/geb-core/src/m...

So it looks mostly like Java, its just making use of Groovy's niceties and more powerful constructs in various parts to make the coding nicer.

Maven also has the maven wrapper: https://github.com/takari/maven-wrapper which accomplishes the same thing.

When creating a new Maven project, Micronaut also configures the Maven wrapper.

IDE's can be fiddly, and anyway I don't think it's good to depend on an IDE for building.

The project could have been set up instead with the "Maven wrapper"(1) which provides "mvn.cmd/sh" scripts at the top level of the project to fetch and run the proper Maven. So after cloning the project, all you have to do is set a proper JAVA_HOME and then do "./mvn clean package". The IDE's will then set themselves up properly if you import the project as a Maven project, and will sync with changes to the Maven pom.xml whenever it changes (Intellij does at least). That's really hard to beat.

(1) https://github.com/takari/maven-wrapper (Being integrated into Maven itself soon).

I got it from here: https://github.com/takari/maven-wrapper

> Now “obviously” the answer is that we should have pegged the version of gradle required to use the script

My first step with either gradle or maven is to install the wrapper generator, which has this effect. After adding the wrapper you invoke it via ./gradlew or ./mvnw in the project doirectory.

It’s not perfect - especially in terms of IDE support - but it’s crucial to at least keeping your CLI builds consistent across team members and in automation.

gradle wrapper: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_wrapper.htm...

maven wrapper: https://github.com/takari/maven-wrapper