## Platform architecture

Gradle is arranged into several coarse-grained components called "platforms".
Each platform provides support for some kind of automation, such as building JVM software or building Gradle plugins.
Most platforms typically build on the features of other platforms.

By understanding the Gradle platforms and their relationships, you can get a feel for where in the Gradle source a particular feature might be implemented.

### Documentation

Provides cross-cutting Gradle documentation and samples, along with the infrastructure to write, test, publish and host the documentation.

## Structure

Each platform and module has its own source directory under [platforms/](../platforms).
In these source directories, you will find the Gradle projects that make up the platform or module.

        daemon --> worker3
    
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These are all Java processes. Each process has a corresponding "runtime".
All source code in Gradle is written to target one or more of these runtimes.
Most source code targets the daemon and the remaining code either targets a single runtime, for example the Gradle client, or is shared across multiple runtimes.

## Composition by architecture modules