SPRINGONE 2GX 2012: THE SPRING, GROOVY, GRAILS, & CLOUD EVENT OF THE YEAR!


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

Hackergarten @ JFokus 2013

Posted 2013-01-23 10:34:00.0

Good news everyone! There will be a Hackergarten session at JFokus! What's Hackergartemore »

Griffon: Resource Injection & Themes

Posted 2013-01-17 03:49:00.0

Some time ago I wrote about a quick experiment I made to figure out if Fuse could be used with Griffon. The results were promising however there were some implementation aspects that I didn't like too much Instances participating in injection had to bmore »

Griffon 1.2.0 released

Posted 2013-01-14 15:21:00.0

In case you missed the big news, Griffon 1.2.0 was released last Fridamore »

Griffon download stats, take II

Posted 2012-12-07 09:50:00.0

Back in June I published some stats regarding plugin downloads form the Central Griffon Artifact Repository. What's interesting is that miglayout, swingx-builder and glazedlists appear to be locked in a fierce competition on whose top dog. There were smore »

Griffon vs Eclipse4: First Round

Posted 2012-11-17 07:55:00.0

I've been doing Eclipse RCP development for the past 2 months as part of my day job (nope, Swing is not dead, it just so happens the customer is an Eclipse shop), and while we used Eclipse 3.x initially we switched to Eclipse 4.x in recent weekmore »

Griffon: Bringing back the fun to desktop development

Posted 2012-11-15 14:34:00.0

Update: The article was written by the time Griffon 0.9.5 came oumore »

Griffon: i18n FXML content on the fly

Posted 2012-11-06 10:30:00.0

Saw earlier on twitter a post by Thomas Bolz (@TeaBeeOh) pertaining a particular issue he's currently facing: updating i18n content defined on an FXML file without restarting.. Sadly for him the short answer is that it can't be done with what FXML and tmore »

Nighthacking in Basel: the aftermath

Posted 2012-11-04 16:33:00.0

Steve's Nighthacking tour made a stop in Basel today. We met at the Canoo office right after lunch time. Gerrit Grunwald (more »
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Presentations

Flying with Griffon

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 anmore »

Sampling the Griffon Testing Buffet

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 more »

Flying with Griffon

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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 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.


Sampling the Griffon Testing Buffet

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Andres Almiray 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.



Books

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

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  • Summary

    Griffon in Action is a comprehensive tutorial written for Java developers who want a more productive approach to UI development. After a quick Groovy tutorial, you'll immediately dive into Griffon and start building examples that explore its high productivity approach to Swing development.

    About the Technology

    You can think of Griffon as Grails for the desktop. It is a Groovy-driven UI framework for the JVM that wraps and radically simplifies Swing. Its declarative style and approachable abstractions are instantly familiar to developers using Grails or JavaFX.

    About the Book

    Griffon in Action gets you going quickly. Griffon's convention-over-configuration approach requires minimal code to get an app off the ground, so you can start seeing results immediately. You'll learn how SwingBuilder and other Griffon "builders" provide a coherent DSL-driven development experience. Along the way, you'll explore best practices for structure, architecture, and lifecycle of a Java desktop application.

    Written for Java developers—no experience with Groovy, Grails, or Swing is required.

    Purchase includes free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBooks downloadable at manning.com.

    What's Inside
    • Griffon from the ground up
    • Full compatibility with Griffon 1.0
    • Using SwingBuilder and the other "builders"
    • Practical, real-world examples
    • Just enough Groovy

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    Table of Contents
      PART 1 GETTING STARTED
    1. Welcome to the Griffon revolution
    2. A closer look at Griffon
      3. PART 2 ESSENTIAL GRIFFON
    3. Models and binding
    4. Creating a view
    5. Understanding controllers and services
    6. Understanding MVC groups
    7. Multithreaded applications
    8. Listening to notifications
    9. Testing your application
    10. Ship it!
    11. Working with plugins
    12. Enhanced looks
    13. Griffon in front, Grails in the back
    14. Productivity tools





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