Gradle is a build system written in groovy. it uses groovy also as the language for its build scripts. it has a powerful multi-project build support. it has a layer on top of ivy that provides a build-by-convention integration for ivy. it gives you always the choice between the flexibility of ant and the convenience of a build-by-convention behavior.

this package contains the gradle maven plugin. with gradle you can deploy to remote maven repositories or install to your local maven repository. this includes all maven metadata manipulation and works also for maven snapshots.