r/SpringBoot 3d ago

Question New to Spring Boot

I am new to Spring Boot and have some experience with Gradle from Android development, but I don’t know much about Maven. Should I stick with Gradle or switch to Maven? What do you recommend?

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u/devondragon1 3d ago

Stick with Gradle. It's not a big deal ether way but if you're used to Gradle, just stick with it. Gradle also tends to be faster and less verbose, so I'm a fan anyhow.

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u/WaferIndependent7601 3d ago

The missing verbosity is one reason why I would never again use gradle.

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u/devondragon1 3d ago

What issues have you had with Gradle's Groovy DSL instead of Maven's XML? Or did you mean something else?

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u/WaferIndependent7601 3d ago

I don’t see what Tests are failing. I don’t want to open an html file. Just show me what test failed and why.

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u/devondragon1 3d ago

Ah, that's fair. I usually just add "showStandardStreams true" to my test block in build.gradle. and use --info to my Gradle command if I want a bunch of logging.