Overview
Griffon 0.9.2-beta-2 – "Aquila rapax" - is a maintenance release of Griffon 0.9.
This release fix critical issues introduced in 0.9.1 that are related to artifacts and meta classes.
New Features
Griffon build
The Griffon build has moved from Ant to Gradle with increased boosts in build time and reduced setup.
Runtime
Logging DSL
Griffon 0.9.2 has ported over the Log4j DSL found in Grails 1.3.x. You can now configure logging pretty much in the same way. Here's an example of how a typical setup will look like (in griffon-app/conf/Config.groovy
The Griffon Guide contains further information on how to use the DSL.
Sample Applications
Griffon 0.9.2-beta-2 ships with 5 sample applications of varying levels of complexity demonstrating various parts of the framework. In order of complexity they are:
File Viewer
File Viewer is a simple demonstration of creating new MVCGroups on the fly.
Source: samples/FileViewer
To run the sample from source, change into the source directory and run griffon run-app from the command prompt.
GroovyEdit
GroovyEdit is an improved version of FileViewer that uses custom observable models.
Source: samples/GroovyEdit
To run the sample from source, change into the source directory and run griffon run-app from the command prompt.
Font Picker
Font Picker demonstrates form based data binding to adjust the sample rendering of system fonts.
Source: samples/FontPicker
To run the sample from source, change into the source directory and run griffon run-app from the command prompt.
Greet
Greet, a full featured Griffon Application, is a Twitter client. It shows Joint Java/Groovy compilation, richer MVCGroup interactions, and network service based data delivery.
Source: samples/Greet
To run the sample from source, change into the source directory and run griffon run-webstart from the command prompt. Because Greet uses JNLP APIs for browser integration using run-app will prevent web links from working.
SwingPad
SwingPad, a full featured Griffon Application, is a scripting console for rendering Groovy SwingBuilder views.
Source: samples/SwingPad
To run the sample from source, change into the source directory and run griffon run-app from the command prompt.
