what is the difference between assemble and jar task of java plugin in gradle?
I tried executing them with a sample Hello world project they both seems to do the same job.
āassembleā and ābuildā are what we call ālifecycleā tasks. They are convenient names for doing several things.
ājarā is a task that only builds the main jar.
You can see all the tasks that the Java plugin adds here: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/java_plugin.html#N120B1
In this case, with no other plugins applied, assemble and jar will seem to do the same thing. But if you had other tasks that āassembledā things (e.g., a javadoc jar or sources jar), assemble might do more.
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