What is difference build project in IntelliJ and gradle build? Has IntelliJ IDEA its own build system?
In addition, What is difference run in IntelliJ and gradle bootRun?
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Answer
Build project is IntelliJ’s own build-in build mechanism, it simply compiles all modified and dependent files in the project.
However, it’s a “plain vanilla” build. It doesnt do fancy things like creating artifacts, deploying to repositories, codegen from a wsdl – etc. That’s what we use build automation tools for, and there are 2 of them (maven and gradle) in widsepread use.
Maven and gradle allow developers to set up a custom (and more complex) build configuration.
The maven pom.xml defines lifecycle goals and the gradle build.gradle defines tasks.
Via a plugin architecture, maven / gradle can accomplish almost anything in a build process. Whilst the maven / gradle “run” task can operate similarly to IntelliJ “Build Project”, it’s not the same thing – in this case the build is instrumented by the build tool (maven or gradle) and can be configured differently, and be part of a more complicated build process.