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 scala plugin that extends the java plugin to add support for scala projects. it can deal with scala-only projects and with mixed java/scala projects. it can even deal with java-only projects. the scala plugin supports joint compilation of java and scala source. this means your project can contain scala classes which use java classes, and vice versa.