Actually, in the case of Griffon the code is open to almost every major JVM language. Yes, that means you can use - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRIFFON/Scala+Plugin - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRIFFON/Jython+Plugin - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRIFFON/Clojure+Plugin - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRIFFON/Erlang+Plugin
There's a JavaFX plugin even but it has been discontinued as Oracle killed JavaFX 1.3.x. It might be reborn once JavaFX 2.0 comes out. Heck, alternative UI toolkits are also supported - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRIFFON/Swt+Plugin - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRIFFON/Pivot+Plugin - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRIFFON/Gtk+Plugin And as a matter of fact a Griffon application can be written almost in its entirety in - Java http://dist.codehaus.org/griffon/guide/guide/13.%20Tips%20and%20Tricks.html#13.2%20Dealing%20with%20Non-Groovy%20Artifacts - Scala https://github.com/aalmiray/griffon_sample_apps/tree/master/scala-test Griffon truly is a polyglot friendly desktop/RIA development platform. Cheers, Andres On Mar 30, 11:02 am, mP <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:19:51 PM UTC+11, Joe Sondow wrote: > > > > Many great foss libraries have come out since the Scala, Groovy and > > friends > > > have come out. Given the advantages of these languages surely they should > > > > have come out w/ something really big that catches everyones attention. > > In > > > terms of the JVM platform i cant see any impact besides the langauges > > > themselves on the entire ecosystem... > > > I think Grails, Gradle, and Griffon have caught a lot of attention. > > Gradle may still need some work before people trust it as the new > > great recommendation for build frameworks, but it might get there > > soon. Grails makes building web apps orders of magnitude easier than > > some other popular web frameworks like Struts or JSF. Griffon shrinks > > down Swing code to something more readable and intuitive for a block > > of GUI code. > > At most Grails & Griffon by their very nature are only available to Groovy > users which again means they are qutie small compared to the rest. > > > Just because a language comes out doesn't mean that's the year when > > the development community as a whole starts using the language to make > > their big new open source projects. Adoption of something new takes > > time. For big important projects a lot of developers like to use a > > language they already have a few years of experience with. > > Of course not, but its been a while for G and S no one is expecting > immediate germination of great things but still... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
