Griffon 0.2 Beta Release

The Griffon team is happy to announce the beta release of Griffon 0.2. Griffon is a Grails like framework for writing RIAs on the JVM using Groovy.  Griffon 0.2-beta – "Felis Concolor" – is the beta release of the Griffon 0.2 line. For a list of planned and shipped features added in 0.2 see the Griffon 0.2 Release Notes http://griffon.codehaus.org/Griffon+0.2

The Notable Major Features are:

* Addon support, a runtime analog to plugins (http://griffon.codehaus.org/addons)
* Enhancements to the packaging script to align Griffon with mutliple packaging results (applet, installer, Java Store).
* More evolution in MVCGroups, including support for arbitrary portion names and auto-injection of properties. 
* Runtime enhancements relating to Event publishing, bootstrap code, and the most recent version of Groovy.

The release notes [http://griffon.codehaus.org/Griffon+0.2] page contains links to sample applications. You can download the Griffon distribution [http://griffon.codehaus.org/Download] at the usual place.

Thanks to all those who contributed to this release!