Preface
The book you’re holding in your hands went through a lot of iterations before it reached its final form. We’re not referring to the editorial process, but rather to the deep relationship it has with the topic it discusses: the Griffon framework. Both evolved at the same time almost from the beginning.
On a peaceful October afternoon back in 2007, Danno Ferrin, James Williams, and I (all members of the Groovy development team) had a very productive chat over Skype about the future of Groovy’s SwingBuilder—an enabler for writing desktop GUIs using Swing as a DSL. We recognized the potential of mixing and matching different builders to write richer UIs, but the current syntax wasn’t pleasant to use. We drafted a plan and got to work on ...
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