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Gradle vs Sonatype Nexus: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Sonatype Nexus? The world's best way to organize, store, and distribute software components. Deliver better, safer software even faster with software supply chain automation.

Gradle and Sonatype Nexus can be categorized as "Java Build" tools.

Gradle and Sonatype Nexus are both open source tools. Gradle with 9.23K GitHub stars and 2.7K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Sonatype Nexus with 527 GitHub stars and 236 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Gradle has a broader approval, being mentioned in 465 company stacks & 360 developers stacks; compared to Sonatype Nexus, which is listed in 49 company stacks and 16 developer stacks.

Pros of Gradle

Pros of Sonatype Nexus

109
Flexibility
52
Easy to use
47
Groovy dsl
22
Slow build time
10
Crazy memory leaks
7
Fast incremental builds
4
Kotlin DSL
1
Windows Support

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Cons of Gradle

Cons of Sonatype Nexus

5
It is just the mess of Ant++
5
Inactionnable documentation
4
Hard to decide: ten or more ways to achieve one goal
2
Bad Eclipse tooling
2
Dependency on groovy

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What is Gradle?

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.

What is Sonatype Nexus?

It is an open source repository that supports many artifact formats, including Docker, Java™ and npm. With the Nexus tool integration, pipelines in your toolchain can publish and retrieve versioned apps and their dependencies

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What tools integrate with Gradle?

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What are some alternatives to Gradle and Sonatype Nexus?

Apache Ant

Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, without Make's wrinkles and with the full portability of pure Java code.

Jenkins

In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.

Groovy

Groovy builds upon the strengths of Java but has additional power features inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk. It makes modern programming features available to Java developers with almost-zero learning curve.

Apache Maven

Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.

Bazel

Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment.

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How much does Gradle cost?

How much does Sonatype Nexus cost?

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News about Gradle

Introducing Java toolchains

(blog.gradle.org)

Oct 30, 2020

Introducing Configuration Caching

(blog.gradle.org)

Aug 10, 2020