Gradle Under the Hood: ClassLoader Harvesting vs. Network CI Crashes

In the first article of our Gradle Under the Hood series, we explored how we decoupled incremental build tracking from volatile compiler outputs to achieve bulletproof caching. Today, we dive into a critical continuous integration (CI) dilemma that almost every plugin author faces: How do you execute complex, isolated task workloads on headless CI nodes without crashing due to missing network dependencies or restricted local caches? Let’s unpack how we engineered the JPersist Suite verificati