The Gradle team uses ADRs to record architectural decisions that the team has made.

See [Architecture decisions records](standards) for the list of ADRs.
Be aware these are very technical descriptions of the decisions, and you might find the documentation below more useful as an introduction to the internals of Gradle.

## Architecture overview

### Platform architecture

Gradle is arranged into several coarse-grained components called "platforms".

        URL resourceUrl = cloader.getResource(resource);

        if (resourceUrl == null) {
            throw new FileNotFoundException("Unable to find: " + resource);
        }

        return new File(resourceUrl.toURI());
    }

    protected ArtifactRepository getLocalRepository() throws Exception {

                    findOptionalProjectBySelector(projects, baseDirectory, selector);
            if (!optSelectedProject.isPresent()) {
                String message = "Could not find the selected project in the reactor: " + selector;
                throw new MavenExecutionException(message, request.getPom());
            }

            MavenProject selectedProject = optSelectedProject.get();

    // it's all encapsulated here so it appears normalized to the POM builder.

    // We are going to take the project packaging and find all plugin in the default lifecycle and create
    // fully populated Plugin objects, including executions with goals and default configuration taken
    // from the plugin.xml inside a plugin.
    //

                || surroundingScope != null && surroundingScope.isIn(excludeScope) == false)
            && AnnotationUtil.containsAnnotation(ast, skipAnnotations) == false
            && ignorePattern.matcher(outerTypeName).find() == false;
    }

	// This filter has tags configured but this object
	// does not have any tag, skip this object
	if len(tagsMap) == 0 {
		return false
	}

	// Both filter and object have tags, find a match,
	// skip this object otherwise
	for k, cv := range f.cachedTags {
		v, ok := tagsMap[k]
		if ok && v == cv {
			return true
		}
	}

	return false

        val newContent = if (content.contains(FIXED_ISSUES_INTRO)) {
            val introStart = content.indexOf(FIXED_ISSUES_INTRO)
            val afterIntro = introStart + FIXED_ISSUES_INTRO.length
            // Find the end of the issues list: the first non-list line after the intro
            val listEnd = findEndOfListSection(content, afterIntro)
            content.substring(0, introStart) + newSection + "\n" + content.substring(listEnd)

        NdrShort ns = new NdrShort(0xABCD); // value & 0xFF => 0xCD
        buf.reset();
        int startIndex = buf.getIndex();
        ns.encode(buf);

        // Find where the actual data starts (after alignment)
        int alignmentBytes = 0;
        if (startIndex % 2 != 0) {
            alignmentBytes = 1; // Need 1 byte of padding for 2-byte alignment
        }

  {
    const std::vector<std::string>& device_names = ListDeviceNames(ctx_0);
    ASSERT_TRUE(std::find(device_names.begin(), device_names.end(),
                          remote_device) != device_names.end());
  }

  {
    const std::vector<std::string>& device_names = ListDeviceNames(ctx_1);
    ASSERT_TRUE(std::find(device_names.begin(), device_names.end(),
                          remote_device) != device_names.end());
  }

   * contains any match for the given regular expression pattern. The test used is equivalent to
   * {@code Pattern.compile(pattern).matcher(arg).find()}
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the pattern is invalid
   * @since 3.0
   */
  @GwtIncompatible // Only used by other GWT-incompatible code.