Griffon: Groovy Desktop Application Framework

Discover Griffon, a Grails-like framework for Rich Internet Applications that will make you rethink how desktop applications are developed. It's no secret that web applications have taken the spotlight over the last years, RIAs are now being pushed forward as an alternative for better user experience, when it comes to Java there are some challenges that have to be met like deployment targets, proper thread management and of course testing. Griffon simplifies those tasks and offers much more by leveraging the convention-over-configuration paradigm made popular by such frameworks as Grails and Rails.

Andres Almiray will be our speaker in July. Andres is a Java/Groovy developer with mode than 10 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application developments since the early days of Java. He is a true believer of open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member of the Griffon framework. Andres maintains a blog at http://jroller.com/aa... and is also a regular to both SV-GTUG and SV-Web JUG.