Acknowledgments

Griffon in Action is the culmination of the efforts of a lot of people, without whom we would not have been able to accomplish its publication. We would like to begin by thanking Josh A. Reed for pitching the book during an autumn conversation as well as Christina Rudloff at Manning for getting the ball rolling. We need to express our appreciation to our development editors, Tara McGoldrick Walsh, Lianna Wlasiuk, and Cynthia Kane. Associate publisher Michael Stephens organized the project and got us on track to get the book finished in a timely and organized manner. Thanks to our editorial director Maureen Spencer, and to our copy editors, Tiffany Taylor and Andy Carroll, for making our writing readable. And thanks to the rest of the Manning staff, including Melody Dolab, Karen Tegtmeyer, Steven Hong, and Candace Gillhoolley.

It’s important that a technical book be accurate, so we would like to thank our formal technical reviewers, Dean Iverson, Dierk König, and Al Scherer. We also thank those who read the book and provided feedback during various stages of the book’s development: Geertjan Wielenga, Venkat Subramanian, Ken Kousen, Scott Davis, Michael Kimsal, Peter Niederwiser, Alex Ruiz, Guillaume Laforge, Dierk König, Hamlet D’Arcy, Gerrit Grünwald, Carl Dea, Dave Klein, Santosh D. Shanbhag, Edward Gibbs, Bob Brown, Doug Warren, Shawn Hartsock, Jean-Francois Poilpret, Amos Bannister, Gordon Dickens, Glen Smith, Jonas Bandi, Mykel Alvis, Eitan Suez, Sven Haiges, Jonathan Giles, Robby O’Connor, Josh Reed, and James Williams. We also thank Dierk for contributing the foreword to our book.

Thanks to all those who have contributed to the Groovy, Griffon, and Grails projects, especially Guillaume Laforge, Graeme Rocher, Jochen Theodoru, Alex Tkachman, Paul King, Hans Dockter, Peter Niederwiser, Luke Daley, Spring Source, and VMWare. We would also like to thank other Groovy, Griffon, and Grails community contributors, including James Williams for SwingXBuilder, Alexander Klein for bringing new ideas to the framework, and René Gröschke and his build-bending Gradle powers. They have created some great stuff and should be proud of themselves. Thanks to Sven Haiges, Glen Smith, and Peter Ledbrook for their informative Grails podcast, where Griffon was present on several occasions. Other special mentions go to Peter for the countless exchanges we had regarding Grails and Griffon; Dick “I loooove the Groovy” Wall, Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, and Joe Nuxoll for the Java Posse podcast; and Michael Kimsal for Groovy Mag.

Andres Almiray

First and foremost, I would like to thank my wife, Ix-chel, for being my rock, anchor, companion, and soul mate. You wouldn’t be holding this book in your hands without her patience, understanding, and driving force. I’d like to thank my parents for bringing me into this world and for all their love through the years. Patricia and Astrud: where would I be without all your help? A very special and warm thank you to Christianne, Joseph, and Didier Muelemans, dear mentors and beacons of hope. We had a group of professors back in college who shaped our professional lives and led us to where we are. Bruno Guardia, Enrique Espinoza, Carlos Guerra, Angel Kuri, and Barbaro Ferro, I’m grateful for all your lessons and your words of encouragement.

Danno Ferrin is the man with the plan. He wrote the initial pieces that eventually led us to bring forth the Griffon framework. You rock!

Geertjan Wielenga started the book with us; sadly, he had to let it go after a while. Still, his contributions in the early stages are deeply engrained in the book. Thank you for keeping the light of desktop Java shining bright (and the NetBeans Griffon plugin too!).

Thank you to the members of the Groovy community at large: Guillaume Laforge, Graeme Rocher, Jochen Theodoru, Alex Tkachman, Paul King, Hans Dockter, Peter Niederwiser, Luke Daley, Adam Murdoch, Dierk König, Hamlet D’Arcy, Roshan Dawrani, Cédric Champeau, Stéphane Maldini, Dave Klein, Zachary Klein, Ben Klein, Michael Kimsal, Jim Shingler, Chris Judd, Joseph Nusairat, Ken Kousen, Ken Sipe, Andrew Glover, Venkat Subramanian, Scott Davis, Tim Berglund, Matthew McCullough, Erik Wendelin, Burth Beckwith, Jeff Brown, Peter Ledbrook, Glen Smith, Sven Haiges, Tim Yates, Marc Palmer, Robert Fletcher, Tomas Lin, Andre Steingress, Andrew Eisenberg, Andy Clement, Peter Gromov, Colin Harrington, Shawn Hartsock, Søren Berg Glasius, Hubbert Klein Ikkink, Sébastien Blanc, Vaclav Pech, Russel Winder, Bernardo Gomez Palacios, Domingo Suarez, Jose Juan Reyes, and Alberto Vilches.

Java on the desktop has evolved a lot since the platform’s inception back in 1995. The following people have carried it on their shoulders and sent it forward: Amy Fowler, Richard Bair, Jasper Potts, Joshua Marinacci, Hans Muller, Chet Haase, Scott Violet, Chris Campbell, Shannon Hickey, Romain Guy, Kirill Grouchnikov, Mikael Grev, Jean-Francois Poilpret, Karsten Lentzsch, Gerrit Grünwald, Jim Weaver, Stephen Chin, Dean Iverson, Jim Clarke, Jonathan Giles, Carl Dea, Jeanette Winzenburg, and Rémy Rakic.

Thanks to the friends and colleagues I’ve met across the years: el equipazo! (Artemio Urbina, Jose Luis Balderas, Pedro Iniestra, and Francisco Macias), Ignacio Molina, Agustin Ramos, Kevin Nilson, Mike van Riper, Alex Ruiz, Yvonne Price, Stoyan Vassilev, Jay Zimmerman, Ben Ellison, Deepak Alur, Etienne Studder, Johannes Bühler, Sven Herke, Alberto Mijares, Detlef Brendle, Sibylle Peter, Dieter Holz, and Hans-Dirk Walter.

Last but not least, thanks to Mac Liaw, the evil genius behind it all.

Jim Shingler

I would like to thank my wife, Wendy, and son, Tyler, for their support and patience during the writing of the book and in our journey together through life. I would like to thank all those who have contributed to my personal and professional growth over the years: Wendy Shingler, Tyler Shingler, James L. Shingler Sr., Linda Shingler, George Ramsayer, Chris Judd, Andres Almiray, Danno Ferrin, Tom Posival, Ken Heintz, Bryce Kerlin, Rick Burchfield, David Lucas, Chris Nicholas, Tim Resch, BJ Allmon, Kevin Smith, Jeff Brown, Dave Klein, Paul King, Soren Berg Glasius, Michael Kimsal, Joseph Nusairat, Brian Sam-Bodden. Steve Swing, Brian Campbell, Greg Wilmer, Rick Fannin, Kunal Bajaj, Mukund Chandrasekar, Seth Flory, Frank Neugebauer, David Duhl, Jason Gilmore, Teresa Whitt, Jay Johnson, Gerry Wright, and the many other people who have touched my life. I’d also like to thank Jay Zimmerman, Andrew Glover, Dave Thomas, Venkat Subramaniam, Scott Davis, Neal Ford, Ted Neward, and the other great speakers and influencers on the “No Fluff Just Stuff” tour.

Danno Ferrin

I would like to thank K.D., S.R., C.B, J.C., H.G., and H.F. for their support and patience.