GUI Programming with Groovy

Introduction

Groovy has several options available for writing GUI code:

• you can directly use any of the AWT and Swing classes built in to Java
• you can use any Java libraries which sit on top of or alongside Swing, e.g.:
  • JGoodies (home) (example)
  • JFreeChart (home) (example) (builder)
• you can use Groovy's SwingBuilder (see Further Details)
• you can use GraphicsBuilder to access Java 2D features
• you can use SwingXBuilder (see Further Details)
• you can use the JIDE builder for the open source JIDE Common Layer
• you can use the GroovySWT module
• you can use the PrefuseBuilder for creating pretty representations of graphs of objects
• you can use the wingS framework: WingsBuilder - (example) (comparison to swing)

You might also consider using FEST for testing your GUI application as shown here.

Further Details