Griffon in Action

Summary

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
Griffon in Action gets you 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.

Written for Java developers-no experience with Groovy, Grails, or Swing is required.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
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

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Table of Contents

PART 1 GETTING STARTED
1. Welcome to the Griffon revolution
2. A closer look at Griffon
PART 2 ESSENTIAL GRIFFON
3. Models and binding
4. Creating a view
5. Understanding controllers and services
6. Understanding MVC groups
7. Multithreaded applications
8. Listening to notifications
9. Testing your application
10. Ship it!
11. Working with plugins
12. Enhanced looks
13. Griffon in front, Grails in the back
14. Productivity tools

About the author

Andres Almiray is a member of the Groovy Swing team, a group of developers in charge of the Swing code and the tasks at the very core of the language. He is a co-founder and project lead of the Griffon framework, and is responsible for FactoryBuilderSupport, JideBuilder, and GraphicsBuilder. Andres is also a frequent conference speaker and Java Champion.

Danno Ferrin is a senior software engineer with experience in numerous UI technologies including Java, Swing, Flex, and JavaScript. He's the co-founder of Griffon, and an active committer to the Groovy language.

James Shingler is the Lead Technical Architect for Big Lots (a nationwide retailer base in Columbus, Ohio), an international speaker, an open source evangelist, and coauthor of Beginning Groovy and Grails (2008). The focus of his career has been using cutting-edge technology to develop IT solutions for the retail, insurance, financial services, and manufacturing industries.

Summary

Summary

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
Griffon in Action gets you 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.

Written for Java developers—no experience with Groovy, Grails, or Swing is required.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
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

=======================================

Table of Contents

PART 1 GETTING STARTED

1. Welcome to the Griffon revolution
2. A closer look at Griffon

PART 2 ESSENTIAL GRIFFON

3. Models and binding
4. Creating a view
5. Understanding controllers and services
6. Understanding MVC groups
7. Multithreaded applications
8. Listening to notifications
9. Testing your application
10. Ship it!
11. Working with plugins
12. Enhanced looks
13. Griffon in front, Grails in the back
14. Productivity tools

Product details

• Authors: Andres Almiray, Andres Almiray, Danno Ferrin, Danno Ferin, Danno Ferrin, James Shingler, James Shingler
• Publisher: Manning
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2015
• EAN: 9781935182238
• ISBN: 978-1-935182-23-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 189 mm x 234 mm x 1 mm
• Weight: 666 g
• Series: Manning; Manning
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Programming languages