Andres Almiray
Griffon Project Lead
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
Grails: Bootstrapping data with DomainBuilder
Posted Monday, January 23, 2012
A few days ago I was discussing the topic of builders during a Grails training session. After surveying the usual suspects found in the standard Groovy distribution (MarkupBuilder, SwingBuilder, Antbuilder and ObjectGraphBuilder) we jumped into Grails' more »Griffon: to SQL or NoSQL
Posted Monday, October 24, 2011
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 Friday, October 21, 2011
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 Saturday, September 10, 2011
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 Monday, August 15, 2011
The latest Griffon release (0.9.3) is ready for downloamore »Griffon podcast (Spanish)
Posted Thursday, April 21, 2011
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 »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 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 »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
Discover how both the Grails and Griffon frameworks bring back the fun to web and desktop development. more »Books
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.
Price: $24.54
You Save: $20.45 (45%)
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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.