Saturday, September 5, 2009

ANN: gConfig 0.1.2




I am pleased to announce the release of gConfig 0.1.2, a configuration tool for Griffon, a Groovy Technology.

This release is an upgrade to Griffon 0.1.2 and resolves a LogManager not found issue.

Background

While building Griffon applications, I found myself doing the same repeatative steps when I started building the application. Install these sets of plugins, get those additional 3rd party jars, and oh ya, I want a menubar, toolbar, statusbar, . . . , you get the drift.

I felt like I was spending too much time doing boilerplate code. So I did what any good IT person would do, made it easier through automation. The result is gConfig.

After creating the application, you run gConfig. gConfig is a wizard that will present you with a list of the currently available plugins. You pick which ones you one and the move on to select some popular predefined 3rd party jars. Finally, you are presented with a collection of templates (Menubar, ToolBar, StatusBar, About, and Tips) to install.

When you have completed your selections, gConfig will do the rest. Install the plugins, download the jars, and install the selected templates.

It saves a load of time.

Give it a try.

Screen Shots:









8 comments:

Anonymous said...

just before you get to the templates screen it throws a wobbler, and no templates show in the final screen of the wizard:

ava.security.PrivilegedActionException: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /./../resources/thirdparty.xml (No such file or directory)
at org.netbeans.api.wizard.displayer.WizardDisplayerImpl.showInDialog(WizardDisplayerImpl.java:368)
at org.netbeans.api.wizard.displayer.WizardDisplayerImpl.show(WizardDisplayerImpl.java:275)
at org.netbeans.api.wizard.WizardDisplayer.showWizard(WizardDisplayer.java:107)
at org.netbeans.api.wizard.WizardDisplayer$showWizard.call(Unknown Source)
at griffon.builder.wizard.WizardBuilder.showWizard(WizardBuilder.groovy:58)

ados said...

Have tried this with new griffon .2 beta and get this problem if i select any plugin from the list

startup failed,_GriffonPackage_groovy: 19: unable to resolve class org.apache.log4j.Logmanager @line 19, column 1. 1 error

also, has anyone tried this on a mac seems to fail as in previous comment. I can only get it to run on windows

Jim Shingler said...

Just saw these message, . . . I'll take a look

Jim Shingler said...

Okay, I've taken a look, . . . the new version of Griffon revealed a design defect. I have a path I am going to follow that should solve the problem.

Keep and Eye on my blog, . . . I should be releasing a new version soon.

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