By Danno Ferrin

What is the Griffon Framework? And how would I use it? This session will help those who may not have been following the Griffon framework understand what it is and see how it works.

We will start from square one by installing Griffon and build a simple application from scratch. In addition to basics such as file structures, SwingBuilder view scripts, and data binding we will cover intermediate features such as multiple MVC Groups and plugins. This will feature a good amount of live coding to show the concepts in action.

By Danno Ferrin

The Rails tenets are great, for web based applications. But how do the values hold up when applied to Desktop and Rich Internet Applications?

In 2004 the web development world was reshaped by a little framework named Rails. What is most notable about Rails was not the technical details of the framework, but the core values that drove these technical decisions. These values have evolved over the years and are now known as the Rails Tenets. How do these values hold when taken to the desktop and Rich Internet applications?

It turns out most of these tenets work very well in a rich application setting, and only two (Fat Model/Skinny Controller and Use REST Interfaces) need alteration (Pervasive MVC and Use Data Binding respectively). This presentation will go over all the values and show how the Griffon framework applies them.