What's the difference between implementation and compile in Gradle Build?
Mahak Chahal
8 months ago
When we are building and running a Java project there are two classpaths involved:
- Compile classpath : It contains list of dependencies that are required for the JDK to be able to compile Java code into .class files.
- Runtime classpath : It contains list of dependencies is required to actually run the compiled Java code.
When we configure Gradle dependencies all we really doing is configuring which dependencies should appear on which classpath.
Given there are only two classpaths, Gradle provides three options to declare our dependencies:
- compileOnly : It puts the dependency on the compile classpath only.
- runtimeOnly : It puts the dependency on the runtime classpath only
- implementation : It puts the dependency on both classpaths
We must use implementation rather than compile for dependencies, as compile is now deprecated or removed in the case of Gradle 7+.
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