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Griffon: Swing just got fun again
Griffon is a desktop framework that leverages Swing and Groovy to provide a more responsive and extensible alternative to traditional Swing applications. It uses builders and MVC architecture to compose user interfaces in a readable way. Griffon provides functionality out of the box and can be extended through add-ons and plugins to add new capabilities like database integration and support for other JVM languages. It aims to make desktop development with Java more productive and fun.
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- 1. Griffon: Swing justgot fun again James Williams
- 2. Agenda What isGriffon? What's un-fun about Swing? Getting Started Builders Griffon MVC Lifecycle Add-ons Plugins Demos QA
- 3. What's un-fun aboutSwing?
- 4. What's un-fun aboutSwing? 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
- 5. What is Griffon?desktop framework leveraging Swing and Groovy Apache 2 Licensed very extensible unofficially called "Grails for the desktop"
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- 7. Getting Started griffoncreate-app <AppName> griffon list-plugins griffon install-plugin <PluginName> griffon run-app griffon run-applet griffon run-webstart griffon package
- 8. Builders DSLs tocompose complex structures Encapsulate some common conversions Can allow elements from different toolkits to be mixed Yield much more readable code than typical Java code
- 9. Builders - SampleCode JFrame frame = new JFrame("My Frame"); frame.setSize(200,200); frame.add(new JLabel("Test Label")); is the equivalent to : frame (title: "My Frame", size:[200,200]) { label("Test Label") }
- 10. Models contain variablesreferenced by the controller and view can use the @Bindable notation to provide binding support are injected into the controller and view at run-time
- 11. Views can bewritten in Groovy or Java represent a single display in your application can mix and match components from different UI toolkits
- 12. Demo - SimpleCalculator
- 13. 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
- 14. UI Threading aka"The Evil EDT" doOutside doInside doLater edt
- 15. Add-ons run-time analogto plugins can add or respond to runtime events can decorate MVC Groups
- 16. Plugin Types UserInterface Builders Testing Other JVM Langs Bling Database Miscellaneous
- 17. User Interface BuilderPlugins AbeilleFormBuilder CSSBuilder FlamingoBuilder FxBuilder GfxBuilder JIDEBuilder MacWidgetsBuilder SwingXBuilder SwingXtrasBuilder TrayBuilder TridentBuilder
- 18. Testing Plugins Codecoverage CodeNarc EasyB Fest JDepend
- 19. JVM Language PluginsLangBridge Clojure Scala
- 20. Bling Plugins JGoodiesFormsSplash Screen Transitions
- 21. Miscellaneous Plugins GParsInstaller JUNG Wizard
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- 23. Demo - Griffonon Wave
- 24. 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/
- 25. Griffon Team onTwitter @ecspike - James Williams (Me) @shemnon - Danno Ferrin @aalmiray - Andres Almiray @joshareed - Josh Reed @jshingler - Jim Shingler