SpringOne 2GX 2011

Chicago, October 25-28, 2011

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Andres Almiray

Griffon Project Lead

Andres Almiray
Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and Java Champion, with more than 11 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application developments since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include Groovy and Swing. He is a true believer of open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member and current project lead of the Griffon framework. He blogs periodically at http://jroller.com/aalmiray. You can find him on twitter too as @aalmiray. He likes to spend time with his beloved wife, Ixchel, when not hacking around.

Blog

Griffon: to SQL or NoSQL

Posted 2011-10-24 16:32:00.0

A common question asked in the Griffon mailing list is: can GORM be used with Griffon? Sadly the answer is no, not yet. However this doesn't mean there's no persistence support for Griffon at all, quite the opposite, there are 17 active plugins at the mmore »

Griffon: hanging by a thread

Posted 2011-10-21 19:56:00.0

Java Swing developers are well aware of the golden Swing Rule. Given that it's so easy to break it we at Griffon try to make your life easier by sticking to conventions. As a developer, you'd like to write code like this class SampleController { defmore »

Griffon reaches 3rd year

Posted 2011-09-10 02:00:00.0

Happy Birthday Griffon! I can't believe it's been 3 years since Danno posted the first announcement. Griffon has come a looong way sincmore »

Griffon 0.9.3: New & Noteworthy

Posted 2011-08-15 08:22:00.0

The latest Griffon release (0.9.3) is ready for downloamore »

Griffon podcast (Spanish)

Posted 2011-04-21 03:19:00.0

Hace un par de semanas tuve el honor de ser invitado a participar en la serie de podcasts de JavaHispano. La entrevista corrió por parte de Jorge Rubira, a quien tuve el placer de conocer personalmente en Spring I/O Madrid 2011 (ojo chavos en M&emore »

Griffon: Your first plugin/addon

Posted 2011-03-24 02:00:00.0

Here's another quick Griffon howto. In the last two posts I showed a brand new feature found in Griffon 0.more »
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Presentations

Flying with Griffon 2010 Style

Building a desktop application is a hard task, there are some many things to keep track of that many projects simply fail to meet their goals. Setting up the project structure keeping each artifact on a well identified location given its responsibility amore »

Griffon Plugin Development

The Griffon framework can be extended via plugins. Plugins can work their magic both at build time and runtime. Building a plugin is actually an easy task however there are a few things you should know to get the most out of the Griffon plugin system.more »

Flying with Griffon 2010 Style

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Andres Almiray By Andres Almiray

Building a desktop application is a hard task, there are some many things to keep track of that many projects simply fail to meet their goals.

Setting up the project structure keeping each artifact on a well identified location given its responsibility and type, defining the base schema for managing the application's life cycle, making sure the build is properly setup, and more. These are recurring tasks that should be handled by a tool or better yet, a framework.



Griffon is such a framework. Inspired by the Grails framework Griffon aims to bring the same productivity gains to desktop development. In this session you will learn how to build a RESTful and rich application in less than 40 minutes, honest!


Griffon Plugin Development

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Andres Almiray By Andres Almiray

The Griffon framework can be extended via plugins. Plugins can work their magic both at build time and runtime. Building a plugin is actually an easy task however there are a few things you should know to get the most out of the Griffon plugin system.



Come and share your experiences while building a Griffon plugin. Learn from others about tips & tricks that you can apply to your projects.



Books

Griffon in Action
by Andres Almiray, Danno Ferrin, and James Shingler

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  • Griffon, an agile framework based on the Groovy language, makes user interface development dramatically faster and easier. In many respects, Griffon is for desktop development what Grails is for web development.

    Griffon in Action is a comprehensive tutorial written for Java developers who want a more productive approach to UI development. In this book, readers will immediately dive into Griffon. After a Griffon orientation and a quick Groovy tutorial, they'll start building examples that explore Griffon's high productivity approach to Swing development. The book covers declarative view development, like the one provided by JavaFX Script, as well as the structure, architecture and life cycle of Java application development.






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