Speakers
- Venkat Subramaniam
- Matt Stine
- Brian Sletten
- Ken Sipe
- Nathaniel Schutta
- Mark Richards
- Pratik Patel
- Matthew McCullough
- Neal Ford
- Tim Berglund
- Peter Bell
- Craig Walls
- Hans Dockter
- Jeff Brown
- Oleg Zhurakousky
- Billy Williams
- Johnny Wey
- Chris Wensel
- Jim Webber
- James Ward
- Vaughn Vernon
- John Steven
- Bruce Snyder
- John Smart
- Stuart Sierra
- Roshan Sequeira
- Brian Sam-Bodden
- Terry Ryan
- Johanna Rothman
- Ian Robinson
- Paul Rayner
- Nilanjan Raychaudhuri
- Matt Raible
- Eric Pugh
- Peter Niederwieser
- Andrew Lombardi
- Howard Lewis Ship
- Tiffany Lentz
- Scott Leberknight
- Kenneth Kousen
- Kirk Knoernschild
- Dave Klein
- Paul King
- Frank Kim
- Heath Kesler
- Christopher Judd
- Jez Humble
- Daniel Hinojosa
- Erik Hatcher
- James Harmon
- Arun Gupta
- Jerry Gulla
- Jeff Genender
- Raju Gandhi
- Szczepan Faber
- Ben Ellingson
- Todd Ellermann
- Johan Edstrom
- Hamlet D`Arcy
- Esther Derby
- Jeremy Deane
- Luke Daley
- Adrian Cole
- Cliff Click
- Charles Bradley
- David Bock
- Ola Bini
- Scott Bain
- Alex Antonov
- Andres Almiray
- Dan Allen
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
The Griffon Trove: plugin source management
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2012
This entry should be of particular interest to plugin authors (archetypes too!). In releases prior to more »The Griffon Trove: adding Scala to an application
Posted Monday, March 12, 2012
Readers this blog may know that's possible to mix Groovy and Scala code in the same Griffon application (link 1, link 2, link 3). For a time using Scala within a Griffon application required you to still write MVC artifacts with either Groovy (the defaumore »The Griffon Trove: packaging packaging packaging
Posted Friday, February 24, 2012
Since the early days of Griffon it's possible to package an application in several packaging targets; the defaults are jar, zip, applet and webstart. Calling the package command with no arguments will automatically select these 4 targets for you. But whmore »The Griffon Trove: peeking at the build
Posted Monday, February 20, 2012
There are times when working with Griffon you'd like to know what's really happening during build process execution; for example, how much time does it take for a task to complete, or what are the different events you can react to using build event handmore »Presentations
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 »Polyglot Programming in the JVM
The Java language boasts one of the biggest software ecosystems: You will find libraries, components and servers of all sizes, types, colors and flavors - which have made it the choice language for many. However the JVM is open enough to let other languagmore »The Groovy Ecosystem
Groovy is the fastest growing JVM language out there. It might be because it is so easy for Java developers to pick it up, but also because there's an increasing number of projects and libraries that make use of Groovy as the starting point. more »A Walkthrough Groovy's AST Transformations
Learn all about the wonders of Groovy's AST transformations! Tweaking the AST at compile time is a very powerful tool however some developers may find this task a bit daunting as knowledge of the compiler internals must be attained before hand. But Groovymore »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.