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
Griffon: JavaFX for the Enterprise.
Posted 2012-07-03 07:24:00.0
A few weeks ago I presented a talk on JavaFX and Griffon in Linz hosted by eJUG. A couple of Griffon (Swing and JavaFX) applications were shown on stage, with two of them going toe to toe in showing how easy is to integrate JPA into a desktop applicatiomore »The Griffon Trove: checking EDT violations
Posted 2012-06-18 05:05:00.0
Executing code in the proper thread is a must for every Swing application, problem is that it's so easy to break the rules. Griffon is aware of this and tries its best to help you deal with the complexity of running code in and out of the EDT. Since vermore »Groovy and Griffon @ JavaOne 2012
Posted 2012-06-15 08:05:00.0
JavaOne 2012 rejection/acceptance letters were sent a few days ago. after the dust settled I was surprised to see my account did not contain a single accepted proposal, but 5! Here's the run down for this year CON5100 - The Groovy Ecosystem CON5106 - Gmore »The Griffon Trove: troubleshooting plugin upgrades
Posted 2012-06-11 07:20:00.0
Now that Griffon 1.0.0 is available there may be some people experiencing upgrade problemmore »Gr8conf EU 2012: the good, the groovy and the awesome
Posted 2012-06-11 06:09:00.0
Gr8conf EU just took place last week in the cosmopolitan city of Copenhagen. As always it was jam packed with interesting talks, and lost of people interested in hearing the latest news and learning more on the the Gr8 tech that is the Groovy Ecosystem.more »Griffon 1.0.0 is out!
Posted 2012-06-10 07:30:00.0
I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Griffon 1.0.more »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.