Why Griffon?

• Liger was taken, apparently.
• Griffons have large talons.
• Excellent skills in jump and spot as well.

What's in Griffon?

New Feature Development

• UberBuilder - a compositing FactoryBuilderSupport class, which allows seamless merging of existing Builders
• GUIBuilder - An UberBuilder with SwingBuilder, SwingXBuilder, and GraphicsBuilder pre-loaded.

Groovy Core R&D for Desktop stuff

Quicker cycling and more risky experimental changes to some core Groovy classes will be done here as well

• FactoryBuilderSupport - needed changes for UBerBuidler to work
• SwingBuilder - needed changes for UberBuidler to work

Future Directions

There are lots of things Griffon could move into, for example

• A home for the multiple GUI builders for Groovy, It may be worthwhile to merge SwingXBuilder, JIDEBuilder, and GraphicsBuilder under a single code base (still with separate releases).
• A desktop port of GORM could be hosted here
• A desktop variant of the Grails/Rails project structure could be supported, with deployment to Applets, WebStart, or vanilla client Jar files.