Inspired by this post on the forum, the process of setting up a local development environment for exercises on the Java track can be simplified by using the Gradle wrapper. This means that students only need to install the JDK in order to work on exercises on their local machine.
In order to support this, each exercise should provide the Gradle wrapper, similar to how it's done in the Kotlin track (example).
After this is done for all exercises, the public documentation can be updated to:
- No longer instruct to install Gradle locally
- Replace all instructions that use
gradle to instead use ./gradlew (or ./gradlew.bat on Windows).
Additionally, https://github.com/exercism/cli can be updated to use the Gradle wrapper when running exercism test on Java exercises.
Inspired by this post on the forum, the process of setting up a local development environment for exercises on the Java track can be simplified by using the Gradle wrapper. This means that students only need to install the JDK in order to work on exercises on their local machine.
In order to support this, each exercise should provide the Gradle wrapper, similar to how it's done in the Kotlin track (example).
After this is done for all exercises, the public documentation can be updated to:
gradleto instead use./gradlew(or./gradlew.baton Windows).Additionally, https://github.com/exercism/cli can be updated to use the Gradle wrapper when running
exercism teston Java exercises.