Griffon 1.2.0 - is the latest release in the 1.x series
The following dependencies have been upgraded
The following commands have been added
Griffon supports several UI toolkits for which many plugins may exist. Some of these plugins provide the same behavior but targeting a different UI toolkit, for example miglayout (swing) vs. miglayout-javafx (javafx). Now, every Griffon application has a default UI toolkit specified in its metadata; this fact makes it possible to simplify plugin installation by only specifying the common plugin name, that is, the following command
griffon install-plugin miglayout |
will install miglayout-javafx if the application has javafx defined as its UI toolkit. On the other hand, it will install miglayout if the UI toolkit is swing.
An opt-in usage tracking system has been put into place in order to monitor the development of the Griffon community and help drive the roadmap for future features. There's no personal information being recorded; usage tracking can be disabled/enabled at any time. Verifying the current status of usage tracking is done by invoking this command
griffon usage-stats |
Enabling or disabling usage tracking is done with
griffon usage-stats --enabled=[true|false] |
Usage tracking is turned off automatically if running in offline mode.
DSL descriptors for both Intellij IDEA and Eclipse have been updated to their latest compatible syntax.
Services now have their own life-cycle methods, similarly to their MVC counterparts. See the section Service LifeCycle for more information.
Services properties may now be configured externally to the service class, using a simple DSL. Refer to the Service Configuration DSL section to learn more.
Applications now have the ability to specify alternate locations for configuration files and scripts. Simply configure griffon.config.locations in Config.groovy, for example
griffon.config.locations = [
"classpath:${appName}-config.properties",
"classpath:${appName}-config.groovy",
"file:${userHome}/.griffon/${appName}-config.properties",
"file:${userHome}/.griffon/${appName}-config.groovy"] |
Section External Configuration Support covers this feature in more detail.
Instances managed by the application (such as MVC members) will now trigger a DestroyInstance event when the instance is no longer needed. This event is the counterpart of NewInstance.
The following plugins need to be updated to their latest versions
Griffon 1.2.0 ships with 8 sample applications of varying levels of complexity demonstrating various parts of the framework. In order of complexity they are:
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 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 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, 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, 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.
GroovyFXPad, a full featured Griffon Application, is a scripting console for rendering GroovyFX views.
Source: samples/GroovyFXPad
To run the sample from source, change into the source directory and run griffon run-app from the command prompt.
FxBrowser is a trivial JavaFX powered browser that demonstrates Griffon's integration with JavaFX.
Source: samples/FxBrowser
To run the sample from source, change into the source directory and run griffon run-app from the command prompt.
WeatherWidget demonstrates binding, threading and plugin usage.
Source: samples/WeatherWidget
To run the sample from source, change into the source directory and run griffon run-app from the command prompt.