I am trying Griffon for rapid desktop development, as it is so much quicker to write Ruby-style code than Java, and i enjoy this clean ruby architecture. Please understand that i am just starting - maybe my question is stupid.
I wanted to ask, if/how/how simply 'native' java .jar libraries can be used (just any .jar, there are so many). My question, b/c to start with groovy, i did the groovy-koans. there, classed were either .java or .groovy, and could 'work together'. such my thought, that might be possible with .jars (that is, libraries, plugins) alike?
Thank you!
You can follow the instruction in http://griffon.codehaus.org/guide/latest/guide/configuration.html#dependencyResolution to add dependency to Jar files stored in Maven repository.
You can also put the Jar files to lib folder in your Griffon project.