Installing Gradle is similar to installing Ant and Maven. We download the binary distribution, unpack it, and add the bin to the PATH. The commands to install Gradle are as follows:

wget http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.10-bin.zip
unzip gradle-1.10-bin.zip
export GRADLE_HOME=/usr/local/gradle-1.10
export PATH=$GRADLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
gradle -v

The basic concepts involved in getting a simple build running with Gradle are very similar to those of Ant and Maven. The Gradle build file is usually called build.gradle, and builds...