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This article originally appeared in the January 2011 issue of GroovyMag. Gradle is a build system in which builds are described using a declarative and concise DSL written in the Groovy language. This article describes how you can wrap proven Apache Ant Tasks in a Gradle Plugin to make using them as effortless as possible. […]

I set out to explore some of the Atlassian API’s this week, along with a test drive of Jira 4, and ended up developing a simple XML-RPC plugin for Grails. Utilizing little more than the Groovy XMLRPC library I was able to implement a client service for the Jira XmlRpcService in minutes. Nothing terribly complicated […]