tomas lin

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The best Recipe book out there for groovy is the Groovy Goodness Notebook, by Mr. Haki and collected from his blog posts - https://leanpub.com/groovy-goodness-notebook
10 years ago
Andres,

With Grails, we can generate views that are not directly bound to a HTML implementation. The Flex Grails Scaffold, ZK project, OpenLaszlo, amongst others, show that despite it being a ridiculous amount of work, we can use this mechanism to generate polyglot views.

As a UI developer, I see certain tools out there that are starting to blur the desktop / web / mobile boundaries. I see two approaches being taken, the Adobe AIR / Flex / Slider method, where a company sponsors a cross-compiler; and the HTML5 + Appcelerator Titanium model, where code that runs on the web is rendered into Objective-C, Android, etc.

When I look at the Griffon view syntax, for example, I say to myself, 'hey, that looks just like the MXML structure in Flex'! But then I begin to wonder how easy / hard it would be to take that syntax and actually generate Flex code that works from it.

Is it anywhere in the Griffon roadmap to enable it to be a more general groovy based template or generator of languages outside of the Java / Swing world?

And please don't say that Swing and JNLP is the solution, because that would cause me to jab a fork into my eyeball.
14 years ago