Speakers


Andres Almiray

Griffon Project Lead

Andres Almiray

Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and Java Champion, with more than 13 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

Gr8conf EU 2013 at a glance

Posted Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Last week Copenhagen became the grooviest city in the world for a few days, as Gr8conf EU 2013 had it's fifth edition. Here's a quick report of what transpired during this awesome time. The trip began with a quick stop at the annual Groovy DevComore »

Greach 2.0: a small report

Posted Friday, February 15, 2013

Greach 2.0 just took place the last weekend of January in Madrid. What's Greach you asmore »

Where in the World is Griffon?

Posted Friday, February 15, 2013

Often times when presenting Griffon at conferences someone asks who's using it. My usual reply gravitates towards desktop application development not not being discussed as much as web and mobile however it's still very much alive. The Griffon Artifact more »

Hackergarten @ JFokus 2013

Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2013

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

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 of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

    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