Griffon in Action

Foreword

As soon as I heard about Griffon in Action, I was eager to get it into my hands. What I expected was a typical Manning In Action book: providing an easy jump start, working from actionable examples, and providing lots of insight about the technology at hand. It turned out that this book not only lived up to my expectations, it exceeded them in many ways.

First, the authors’ knowledge is indisputable. This is obvious for the technology, because we’re talking about main Griffon contributors. But beyond that comes experience about all aspects of developing desktop applications based on Swing, ranging from how to set up your project, through proper separation of concerns, threading, building, testing, visual composition, and code metrics, ...