concept lifecycle phase in category gradle

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Figure 1.13. Maven’s most important build lifecycle phases

We’ll also look at Gradle’s build lifecycle to get a good understanding of how a build is configured and executed. Your build script can respond to notifications as the build progresses through the lifecycle phases. In the last part of this chapter, we’ll show how to write lifecycle hooks as closure and listener implementations.