task someTask { ... }

The major difference between these two syntaxes is, that the configuration block of an registered task will only be executed when the task is actually created due to the build requires that task to run. The configuration block of an eagerly created tasks will be executed immediately.

import org.gradle.api.provider.Provider;
import org.gradle.api.tasks.SourceSet;
import org.gradle.api.tasks.SourceSetContainer;
import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskProvider;
import org.gradle.api.tasks.bundling.Jar;
import org.gradle.api.tasks.compile.AbstractCompile;
import org.gradle.api.tasks.compile.CompileOptions;
import org.gradle.api.tasks.compile.GroovyCompile;
import org.gradle.api.tasks.compile.JavaCompile;

        if (noticeFile != null) {
            final var generateNotice = tasks.register("generateNotice", NoticeTask.class, noticeTask -> {
                noticeTask.setInputFile(noticeFile);
                noticeTask.source(Util.getJavaMainSourceSet(project).get().getAllJava());
            });
            tasks.withType(Zip.class).named("bundlePlugin").configure(task -> task.from(generateNotice));
        }
    }

    final Queue<Runnable> tasks = new ArrayDeque<>();

    @Override
    public void execute(Runnable command) {
      tasks.add(command);
    }

    boolean hasNext() {
      return !tasks.isEmpty();
    }

    void runNext() {
      assertTrue("expected at least one task to run", hasNext());
      tasks.remove().run();
    }

    void runAll() {

                .build()
        then:
        result.task(":distribution:bwc:minor:buildBwc${platform.capitalize()}Aarch64Tar").outcome == TaskOutcome.SUCCESS
        result.task(":distribution:bwc:minor:buildBwcOss${platform.capitalize()}Aarch64Tar").outcome == TaskOutcome.SUCCESS

        and: "assemble tasks triggered"
        assertOutputContains(result.output, "[$bwcDistVersion] > Task :distribution:archives:${platform}-aarch64-tar:extractedAssemble")

	for {
		select {
		case task, ok := <-h.tasks:
			if !ok {
				return
			}

			var res madmin.HealResultItem
			var err error
			switch task.bucket {
			case nopHeal:
				err = errSkipFile
			case SlashSeparator:
				res, err = healDiskFormat(ctx, objAPI, task.opts)
			default:
				if task.object == "" {
					res, err = objAPI.HealBucket(ctx, task.bucket, task.opts)
				} else {

                task.setGroup("Documentation");
                task.setDescription("Validate that the changelog YAML files comply with the changelog schema");
                task.setInputFiles(yamlFiles);
                task.setJsonSchema(new File(project.getRootDir(), RESOURCES + "changelog-schema.json"));

import org.gradle.api.Project;
import org.gradle.api.Task;
import org.gradle.api.plugins.JavaPlugin;
import org.gradle.api.tasks.SourceSet;
import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskProvider;

public class SplitPackagesAuditPrecommitPlugin extends PrecommitPlugin {
    public static final String TASK_NAME = "splitPackagesAudit";

    @Override
    public TaskProvider<? extends Task> createTask(Project project) {

        // without declaring an explicit or implicit dependency. This can lead to incorrect results being produced, depending on what order the tasks are executed.
        tasks.named("publishGradleDistributionPublicationToRemoteRepository") {
            dependsOn("signLocalPublication")
        }
        tasks.named("publishLocalPublicationToLocalRepository") {

        try {
          while (true) {
            currentThread.name = task.name
            val delayNanos =
              logger.logElapsed(task, task.queue!!) {
                task.runOnce()
              }

            // A task ran successfully. Update the execution state and take the next task.
            task = withLock {
              afterRun(task, delayNanos, true)
              awaitTaskToRun()
            } ?: return