Griffon in Action

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Cover Illustration

1. Getting started

Chapter 1. Welcome to the Griffon revolution

1.1. Introducing Griffon

1.1.1. Setting up your development environment

1.1.2. Your first Griffon application

1.2. Building the GroovyEdit text editor in minutes

1.2.1. Giving GroovyEdit a view

1.2.2. Making the menu items behave: the controller

1.2.3. How about a tab per file?

1.2.4. Making GroovyEdit functional: the FilePanel model

1.2.5. Configuring the FilePanel controller

1.3. Java desktop development: welcome to the jungle

1.3.1. Lots of boilerplate code (ceremony vs. essence)

1.3.2. UI definition complexity

1.3.3. Lack ...