These are the latest additions to the growing list of Griffon plugins:

• Swingx-ws 0.1 - embed a Map widget on your Griffon application. The jxmapKit node is configured by OpenStreetMap support by default.
• GlazedLists 0.1 - create tables effortlessly and them in sync with data by means of GlazedLists' amazing set of classes and components.

There have been a few times while building a Griffon app that I found myself copying the following snippet just to make a read-only table view of a set of records
createTableModel = { def columnNames = ["Builder", "Group", "Node"] new EventTableModel(model.nodes, [ getColumnCount: {columnNames.size()}, getColumnName: {index -> columnNames[index]}, getColumnValue: {object, index -> object."${columnNames[index].toLowerCase()}" }] as TableFormat) }
If you find yourself in a similar position the next logical step would be to create a plugin for your applications, and that's precisely what prompted the glazedlists plugin. The previous snippet can now be rewritten as
createTableModel = { tableFormat = defaultTableFormat(columnNames: ["Builder", "Group", "Node"]) eventTableModel(source: model.nodes, format: tableFormat) }
There are of course other goodies to be found on the plugin, for example adding a TableComparatorChooser is as simple as
table { tableFormat = defaultTableFormat(columnNames: ["Builder", "Group", "Node"]) eventTableModel(source: model.nodes, format: tableFormat) installTableComparatorChooser(source: model.nodes) }
Regarding swingx-ws, there have been reports that it does not work if you also have swingx-builder installed as a plugin. The reason is that swingx-ws depends on Swing-1.6 but swingx-builder depends on Swingx-0.9.3 and this causes trouble depending on which jar is loaded first. Avoid using both plugins in the same application in the meantime, hopefully this matter will be resolved with a future release of swingx-builder.

Keep on Groovying!