Griffon: Swing just got fun again James Williams

Agenda What is Griffon? What's un-fun about Swing? Getting Started Builders Griffon MVC Lifecycle Add-ons Plugins Demos QA

What is Griffon?

What's un-fun about Swing?

Getting Started

Builders

Griffon MVC

Lifecycle

Add-ons

Plugins

Demos

QA

What's un-fun about Swing?

What's un-fun about Swing? not knowing where stuff is old school Swing is repetitive unresponsive user interfaces configuring JNLPs is a nightmare signing jars is a pain you have to choose between applets and desktop pretty early

not knowing where stuff is

old school Swing is repetitive

unresponsive user interfaces

configuring JNLPs is a nightmare

signing jars is a pain

you have to choose between applets and desktop pretty early

What is Griffon? desktop framework leveraging Swing and Groovy Apache 2 Licensed very extensible unofficially called "Grails for the desktop"

desktop framework leveraging Swing and Groovy

Apache 2 Licensed

very extensible

unofficially called "Grails for the desktop"

Griffon Application Structure

Getting Started griffon create-app <AppName> griffon list-plugins griffon install-plugin <PluginName> griffon run-app griffon run-applet griffon run-webstart griffon package

griffon create-app <AppName>

griffon list-plugins

griffon install-plugin <PluginName>

griffon run-app

griffon run-applet

griffon run-webstart

griffon package

Builders DSLs to compose complex structures Encapsulate some common conversions Can allow elements from different toolkits to be mixed Yield much more readable code than typical Java code

DSLs to compose complex structures

Encapsulate some common conversions

Can allow elements from different toolkits to be mixed

Yield much more readable code than typical Java code

Builders - Sample Code JFrame frame = new JFrame(&quot;My Frame&quot;); frame.setSize(200,200); frame.add(new JLabel(&quot;Test Label&quot;)); is the equivalent to : frame (title: &quot;My Frame&quot;, size:[200,200]) { label(&quot;Test Label&quot;) }

JFrame frame = new JFrame(&quot;My Frame&quot;);

frame.setSize(200,200);

frame.add(new JLabel(&quot;Test Label&quot;));

is the equivalent to :

frame (title: &quot;My Frame&quot;, size:[200,200]) {

label(&quot;Test Label&quot;)

}

Models contain variables referenced by the controller and view can use the @Bindable notation to provide binding support are injected into the controller and view at run-time

contain variables referenced by the controller and view

can use the @Bindable notation to provide binding support

are injected into the controller and view at run-time

Views can be written in Groovy or Java represent a single display in your application can mix and match components from different UI toolkits

can be written in Groovy or Java

represent a single display in your application

can mix and match components from different UI toolkits

Demo - Simple Calculator

Griffon Lifecycle Initialize run before any Swing code is started Startup run after MVC Groups are initialized Ready all events have been processed by the EDT Shutdown all cleanup operations go here

Initialize

run before any Swing code is started

Startup

run after MVC Groups are initialized

Ready

all events have been processed by the EDT

Shutdown

all cleanup operations go here

UI Threading aka &quot;The Evil EDT&quot; doOutside doInside doLater edt

doOutside

doInside

doLater

edt

Add-ons run-time analog to plugins can add or respond to runtime events can decorate MVC Groups

run-time analog to plugins

can add or respond to runtime events

can decorate MVC Groups

Plugin Types User Interface Builders Testing Other JVM Langs Bling Database Miscellaneous

User Interface Builders

Testing

Other JVM Langs

Bling

Database

Miscellaneous

User Interface Builder Plugins AbeilleFormBuilder CSSBuilder FlamingoBuilder FxBuilder GfxBuilder JIDEBuilder MacWidgetsBuilder SwingXBuilder SwingXtrasBuilder TrayBuilder TridentBuilder

AbeilleFormBuilder

CSSBuilder

FlamingoBuilder

FxBuilder

GfxBuilder

JIDEBuilder

MacWidgetsBuilder

SwingXBuilder

SwingXtrasBuilder

TrayBuilder

TridentBuilder

Testing Plugins Code coverage CodeNarc EasyB Fest JDepend

Code coverage

CodeNarc

EasyB

Fest

JDepend

JVM Language Plugins LangBridge Clojure Scala

LangBridge

Clojure

Scala

Bling Plugins JGoodiesForms Splash Screen Transitions

JGoodiesForms

Splash Screen

Transitions

Miscellaneous Plugins GPars Installer JUNG Wizard

GPars

Installer

JUNG

Wizard

Demo - SwingPad

Demo - Griffon on Wave

Griffon Links Download: http://griffon.codehaus.org (includes Greet) Gr8Forums: http://bit.ly/Griffon-on-GR8Forum Demos (except Greet): http://github.com/jwill/griffon-testing-grounds/

Download: http://griffon.codehaus.org (includes Greet)

Gr8Forums: http://bit.ly/Griffon-on-GR8Forum

Demos (except Greet): http://github.com/jwill/griffon-testing-grounds/

Griffon Team on Twitter @ecspike - James Williams (Me) @shemnon - Danno Ferrin @aalmiray - Andres Almiray @joshareed - Josh Reed @jshingler - Jim Shingler

@ecspike - James Williams (Me)

@shemnon - Danno Ferrin

@aalmiray - Andres Almiray

@joshareed - Josh Reed

@jshingler - Jim Shingler