The Kaptain on … stuff

I took the opportunity this past weekend to test drive the latest beta version of Griffon and along with it the as-of-yet unreleased slideware plugin. If you’re not already aware, Griffon is a Grails inspired framework for creating Java Swing applications. The project lead, Andres Almiray, has given several presentations using this plugin and it [...]

Lately I’ve been thinking about all the different ways to bring Groovy into a pure Java or command line environment, and ended up diving into some code to explore the various options. Turns out there’s definitely a good variety of options for running Groovy dynamically inside and out of a Java application. I started [...]