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Gradle vs JFrog Artifactory: What are the differences?
Gradle: A powerful build system for the JVM. Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites; JFrog Artifactory: Enterprise Universal Repository Manager. It integrates with your existing ecosystem supporting end-to-end binary management that overcomes the complexity of working with different software package management systems, and provides consistency to your CI/CD workflow.
Gradle can be classified as a tool in the "Java Build Tools" category, while JFrog Artifactory is grouped under "Code Collaboration & Version Control".
Gradle is an open source tool with 9.23K GitHub stars and 2.7K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Gradle's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Gradle has a broader approval, being mentioned in 465 company stacks & 360 developers stacks; compared to JFrog Artifactory, which is listed in 16 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.
Pros of Gradle
- Flexibility110
- Easy to use51
- Groovy dsl47
- Slow build time22
- Crazy memory leaks10
- Fast incremental builds8
- Kotlin DSL5
- Windows Support1
Pros of JFrog Artifactory
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Cons of Gradle
- Inactionnable documentation8
- It is just the mess of Ant++6
- Hard to decide: ten or more ways to achieve one goal4
- Bad Eclipse tooling2
- Dependency on groovy2