Extending Griffon with plugins

It's been a couple of days since Danno announced the availability of Griffon 0.1 BETA, we hope early adopters of the framework help us plug any leaks before releasing 0.1 proper. As Danno mentioned, there are a handful of improvements to be found on this release, among them you will find improved testing support via scripts as detailed here, and the first batch of Griffon plugins

We Groovy developers believe that testing is an integral part of our daily work, after all we no longer rely on the "safety net" provided by static typing so it makes perfect sense to include a set of features related to that task in Griffon, and what better way to add them that using plugins as the delivery mechanism, that way you're free to choose any combination that suites your needs. The current list of plugins is

• code-coverage: provides code coverage with cobertura, this is actually a port of the Grails plugin made by Mike Hugo, which proves once again that Griffon and Grails can share a lot.
• easyb: enables BDD testing with easyb. This is also a port of grails-easyb-plugin by Rodrigo Urubatan, with slight modifications.
• fest: enables integration testing with FEST.
• jdepend: provides JDepend metrics, this plugin may actually be ported to Grails in the near future.
• swingx-builder: includes SwingXBuilder and its dependencies, ready to be used by your application.
• jide-plugin: follows the steps of the swingx plugin but for JideBuilder.
• installer: creates installers for your application in several formats (IzPack, rpm, dmg)

As you can see 4 of those plugins are test related, 2 of them are ports from existing Grails plugins, and we are just getting started.

Keep on Groovying!