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Griffon: Your first plugin/addon

Posted by: Andres Almiray on March 24, 2011

Here's another quick Griffon howto. In the last two posts I showed a brand new feature found in Griffon 0.9.   more »

Griffon: Building dialogs with MVC

Posted by: Andres Almiray on March 24, 2011

In the previous post, Griffon: Dealing with uncaught exceptions, a screenshot of a dialog appeared at the end, which is reproduced here for your viewing pleasure This dialog is intended as an error witness informing the user that something unexpected happ   more »

Griffon on tour: Europe

Posted by: Andres Almiray on March 23, 2011

Spring has arrived to the northern hemisphere which means the conference season kicks into high gear. There are plenty of options for european JVM developers to get their fix of Java/Groovy/Scala/etc news, however if you're interested in learning more abo   more »

Livin' it up in Vegas at TSSJS 2011

Posted by: Matt Raible on March 22, 2011

Last Wednesday, Trish and I traveled to Las Vegas for TheServerSide Java Symposium 2011 conference. We had a free room from TechTarget, but opted to upgrade to a suite with a view over the Bellagio Fountains. Trish won a trip to Vegas as a sales award ear   more »

Griffon: Dealing with uncaught exceptions

Posted by: Andres Almiray on March 22, 2011

How many times have you encountered a rogue exception that bubbles up to the top of the call stack, causing an application to crash and burn? At least a few times, right? Fortunately the JDK provides a handy mechanism for dealing with such exceptions: Thr   more »

Cool Groovy aspect in Spring

Posted by: Kenneth Kousen on March 22, 2011

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Running Griffon with an alternate Groovy version

Posted by: Andres Almiray on March 21, 2011

A few people have asked the following question in the Griffon user mailing list How can I run Griffon with a version of Groovy other than the bundled one? There are several reasons to do so, here's one. Griffon has its own release cycle (as a matter o   more »

Griffon soundbites (English/Spanish)

Posted by: Andres Almiray on March 12, 2011

IBM's Java Technology Zone recently published an interview of yours truly about Griffon. The interview was conducted by all-around hip guy Andrew Glover, creator of Easyb and a good friend of mine. While Griffon is the main topic we also touch other   more »

Extending Spring Social's Service Provider Framework

Posted by: Craig Walls on March 10, 2011

Last week, I introduced you to Spring Social'   more »

Getting Groovy on the Web And Desktop

Posted by: Andres Almiray on March 10, 2011

This article originally appeared in an special edition of the No Fluff Just Stuff magazine published for SpringOne 2GX 2010. Getting Groovy on the Web And Desktop Andres Almiray Have you ever had the need to build a Grails powered RIA but couldn't find   more »

WebSockets with Johnny Wey at Denver JUG

Posted by: Matt Raible on March 9, 2011

This evening, I attended Denver JUG to hear Johnny Wey talk about WebSockets. This month, the location moved and even though I had a nice bike ride to the meeting, I showed up about 20 minutes late. Johnny's talk lasted about 40 minutes, so I missed the f   more »

Upgrading to JSF 2

Posted by: Matt Raible on March 7, 2011

Last week, I spent a few hours upgrading AppFuse from JSF 1.2 to JSF 2.0.   more »

Introducing Spring Social's Service Provider Framework

Posted by: Craig Walls on March 2, 2011

In my previous post, I introduced you to Spring Socia   more »