| SORCER Project

Project Automation

The SORCER Project uses Gradle to automate the building, testing, publishing, deployment of services. Gradle combines the power and flexibility of Ant with the dependency management and conventions of Maven into a more effective way to build. Gradle is powered by a Groovy Domain Specific Language (DSL), Gradle providing a declarative way to describe how the SORCER Project is built, deployed and assembled.

Consult the Gradle UserGuide
Consult Gradle DSL documentation

Top Tasks to Remember

Using Gradle with the SORCER Project is easy

Lists all available tasks in the current project
```
gradle tasks
```
Builds the SORCER distribution
```
gradle distribution
```
Builds the SORCER installer
```
gradle installer
```
Builds and install project artifacts to the local Maven repository
```
gradle install
```
Cleans (delete) project artifacts (all output in each project’s build directory)
```
gradle clean
```
Builds and publish project artifacts to the shared Maven repository
```
gradle publish
```
Builds and test a project
```
gradle test
```
Starts the SORCER service browser
```
gradle browser
```
Starts a provider (from this service provider project)
```
gradle bootme
```
Stops a provider (from this service provider project)
```
gradle stopme
```
Starts a requestor (from a service requestor project)
```
gradle runRequestor
```
Combines starting SORCER and the browser
```
gradle bootSorcer
```
or if you want to use services provisioned on demand
```
gradle bootSorcerRio
```
Combines starting SORCER and the browser
```
gradle bootSorcer browser
```
Aggregates all tests, view them in build/reports/tests/index.html
```
gradle allTests
```
Halts SORCER OS Services
```
gradle terminateSorcer
```
or if you started up with the task bootSorcerRio call
```
gradle terminateSorcerRio
```
Generates and aggregates all Java documentation
```
gradle allJavadoc
```

Note:

Gradle provides for task shortcuts. What this means is you can use camel-casing to shorth typing a task name to execute. For example:

gradle bootSorcer

Can be shortened to:

gradle bS

Similarly:

gradle runRequestor

Can be shortened to:

gradle rR