This document discusses Griffon, a Swing framework for Grails applications that aims to simplify Swing development. It highlights Griffon's use of bindings to connect model properties to view components, its implementation of the MVC pattern using MVC groups, and its plugin architecture similar to Grails. While noting Griffon's potential, it also comments that Swing development can be painful and Griffon currently lacks documentation as it is still in version 0.1.