I have to agree with the first comment on the blog. Gradle is strictly worse than Maven - it's basically Ant reinvented with Groovy. It leads itself to poorly m

I have to agree with the first comment on the blog. Gradle is strictly worse than Maven - it's basically Ant reinvented with Groovy. It leads itself to poorly maintained, complex build files, and the only good parts are the bits that use Maven under the hood (so just use maven ;-)). It's also slow. Also, if you seriously want to use an Actor framework in Java, you should use Akka - the lead devs really know their stuff, and are active in Java concurrency circles (JSR-166).