Today's big news: Griffon 0.2 has been released! Thank you all who made this possible

With this release comes a new an exciting feature called Addons. Addons are runtime plugins, as opposed to the currently existing buildtime plugins. They are capable of injecting new builder nodes on your View scripts without requiring a full builder class. Same thing with additional methods and properties, and not just on Views, but Controllers as well. They are also able to contribute new MVC members, full groups if needed. Want to know more about this and other exciting 0.2 features? head over to the release notes and find out!

Addons are an incredible boon to the framework. A few plugins demonstrate their capabilities already, and a few more have been released

• REST 0.2 - provides REST capabilities using HTTPBuilder under the covers. This release fixes a bug created by bundling xml-apis (avoid that jar at all costs!).
• Hessian 0.1 - new! allows remoting with the Hessian/Burlap protocols. Compatible with Grails' remoting services.
• RMI 0.1 - new! allows remoting with Java RMI.
• WSClient 0.1 - new! need access to some SOAP based webservices? here's your answer.
• XML-RPC 0.1 - new! another remoting option with XML-RPC. Compatible with Grails' xml-rpc solutions.
• Jabber 0.1 - new! start conversations with the Jabber communication protocol.
• Fest 0.3 - upgraded to FEST 1.2a3. Updated to Griffon 0.2's testing facilities.
• Code Coverage 0.3.1 - updated to Griffon 0.2's testing facilities.

All of the new remoting plugins [Hessian, RMI, WSClient, XML-RPC] provide an example of a Griffon application talking to a Grails app with their corresponding protocols.

Keep on Groovying!