Griffon @ SpringHispano

Last Saturday (Oct 3rd) the SpringHispano community held its 9th community session. Domingo Suárez (@domix) kick-started the session with a talk on Apache Camel. If your daily job requires you to integrate disparate systems in order to get the job done you may want to give Apache Camel a closer look. The second talk of the day was given by yours truly, the topic being a fond one to my heart: Griffon. Both talks were live streamed thanks to the efforts of Erick Camacho (@ecamacho) and Wulfrano Moreno (@wulfrano), you can find the videos at this link.

Now if you pay attention to the Griffon video (even if Spanish is not your language du jour) you'll notice something funny with the slides. This happens because I didn't use any regular presentation software, it was a Griffon application. Yes, you're seeing a Swing-based, Griffon powered application. It wouldn't have been possible without the efforts of the following people and their Swing related projects (in no particular order):

Kiril Grouchnikov (@kirillcool) - creator of Substance (Look&Feel) and Trident (animation library).
Jesse Wilson (@jessewilson) and James Lemiux - creators of GlazedLists.
Jeremy (http://javagraphics.blogspot.com) - creator of Transitions2D.
Ben Galbraith (@bgalbs) - creator of SwingClarity -> CSS for Swing.
Mikael Grev (@mikaelgrev) - creator of MigLayout.

All those projects and Griffon come together to build the application in a seamless way. The code is available at http://github.com/aalmiray/griffon-talk. These are the app's stats:

    +----------------------+-------+-------+
    | Name                 | Files |  LOC  |
    +----------------------+-------+-------+
    | Models               |     2 |    37 |
    | Views                |    30 |   781 |
    | Controllers          |     2 |    53 |
    | Lifecycle            |     5 |     9 |
    | Groovy/Java Sources  |     1 |    28 |
    | Integration Tests    |     2 |     8 |
    +----------------------+-------+-------+
    | Totals               |    42 |   916 |
    +----------------------+-------+-------+

916 lines of code, and I have the feeling a few more can be shaved off. Oh, in case you're wondering, that application was developed in day, most of the time was spent tweaking the layouts and arranging the components. Who's up for a presentation DSL? The following is a short video of the application in action

UPDATE: take the app for a spin! download the jar from github [alternate link], then type 'java -jar griffon-talk.jar' (or double click on it on Windows). Requires JDK6.

Keep on Groovying!

Posted by: Andres Almiray on October 8, 2009

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