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Painless Java Desktop Application Development with Griffon, MigLayout, and IntelliJ

As Java consultants and developers, a very large percentage our projects are web applications. We have become accustomed to depending on MVC web frameworks, and almost take for granted that at some level, we will be handling HTTPServletRequests, providing HTTPServletResponses, and deploying our applications to either a servlet container or a full J2EE server. Every … Read More

TechCast #41 – Andres Almiray on Groovy Griffon, THE Swing UI Framework

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Our guest on this episode is Andres Almiray, key contributor to the Groovy Griffon project at CodeHaus. Griffon is an MVC framework and application development platform for building Swing-based applications, and can be configured to execute Applets, Java Applications and Web Start projects. Andres talks about the Griffon MVC framework, plugins, Addons, event dispatching, and … Read More