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Groovy Gradle Version 5.3.1

Gradle is an open-source build automation tool focused on flexibility and performance. It has a mature offering of libraries,plugins, and testing. Gradle build scripts are written using a Groovy or Kotlin DSL.

Although this post focuses on installation, I also wanted to provide some links for extra value:

Plugins can be found @ https://plugins.gradle.org/

Netflix's Glisten is an ease of use Groovy library for building JVM applications with Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) check out https://github.com/Netflix/glisten

Lastly, Gradle auto completion can be found @ https://github.com/gradle/gradle-completion

Installing Gradle Version 5.3.1

yum makecache
yum install unzip
yum install bzip2
yum remove java
yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk
// Confirm Intalled correctly
java -version

wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.3.1-bin.zip -P /tmp/
mkdir /opt/gradle
unzip -d /opt/gradle /tmp/gradle-5.3.1-bin.zip
rm /tmp/gradle-5.3.1-bin.zip
vim /etc/profile.d/gradle.sh  => Insert the following:
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gradle/gradle-5.3.1/bin
chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/gradle.sh

Logout and Login to reset shell.

# gradle --version

Welcome to Gradle 5.3.1!
For more details see https://docs.gradle.org/5.3.1/release-notes.html
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Gradle 5.3.1
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Build time:   2019-03-28 09:09:23 UTC
Revision:     f2fae6ba563cfb772c8bc35d31e43c59a5b620c3

Kotlin:       1.3.21
Groovy:       2.5.4
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.13 compiled on July 10 2018
JVM:          1.8.0_201 (Oracle Corporation 25.201-b09)
OS:           Linux 3.10.0-957.10.1.el7.x86_64 amd64

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