June 2012
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h 2m
English
Overview
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
With Griffon in Action you get 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.
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
About the Reader
Written for Java developers—no experience with Groovy, Grails, or Swing is required.
About the Authors
Andres Almiray is the project lead of the Griffon framework, frequent conference speaker, and Java Champion. Danno Ferrin is cofounder of Griffon and an active Groovy committer. James Shingler is a technical architect, conference speaker, open source advocate, and author.
Quotes
A thorough source of information...the definitive guide.
- Dierk König, Author of Groovy in Action
If you think building desktop apps is complex, this awesome book will change your mind!
- Guillaume Laforge, Groovy project lead
Brings life back into Java desktop application development.
- Santosh Shanbhag, Monsanto Company
Griffon makes Java GUI programming easy. Griffon in Action makes it fun.
- Michael Kimsal, Publisher of GroovyMag
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