SpringOne 2GX 2011

Chicago, October 25-28, 2011

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

Getting Groovy on the Web and Desktop

Discover how both the Grails and Griffon frameworks bring back the fun to web and desktop development. more »

Painless Desktop Application Development: The Griffon Experience

Despite of all the buzz and hype around webapps over the last 8 years fact is that desktop applications are still found in many places, specially in the enterprise. However the legends are true: building desktop applications is a hard job. But it does notmore »

Getting Groovy on the Web and Desktop

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Andres Almiray By Andres Almiray

Discover how both the Grails and Griffon frameworks bring back the fun to web and desktop development.



Grails and Griffon share a lot of history and code, its very likely that what you learn in one framework can be done in the other and viceversa. Both are pretty much on par when it comes to communication across the wire, serialization or remoting; those are precisely the options that we'll explore in this session to build a Griffon frontend powered by a Grails backend.


Painless Desktop Application Development: The Griffon Experience

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Andres Almiray By Andres Almiray

Despite of all the buzz and hype around webapps over the last 8 years fact is that desktop applications are still found in many places, specially in the enterprise. However the legends are true: building desktop applications is a hard job. But it does not have to be. Enter Griffon.



Griffon aims to bring back the fun and productivity to desktop application development in the same way Grails did it (and continues to do so) on the web. Griffon is rooted in the JVM but has Grails in its DNA. This means you'll find yourself right at home if you're a Java veteran, same goes for all of you that made the jump to Grails. In this session we'll cover the basics to get you started with Griffon. How applications are structured and built. Then we'll switch gears into high speed and cover topics like threading, testing, deploying, handling of legacy code and even network and database integration.



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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