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 lif ecycle, 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, there are so many traits shared by both frameworks that a Grails developer should be able to pick up the pace fairly quick.

Come see how a restful desktop application can be be boostrapped in literally minutes thanks to the power of well thought conventions and a good deal of Groovy elbow grease. Welcome to the Griffon revolution.

By Andres Almiray

Testing a desktop application, an often neglected task left to the last possible moment if it is not entirely scrapped from the schedule, the QA team should be able to handle the load, ain't that right? with Griffon there are no more excuses, there is an easier way to make ends meet when testing a desktop application. Griffon will help you keep an eye on your application's green bar from the get go, it also comes with a full arsenal of plugins that make this task even more enjoyable and rewarding.

In this session we will sample each and every one of Griffon's testing plugins, like Easyb and FEST to name a few.