Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during the last week:

• Ken Orr provides some background behind the Mac Widgets for Java project, also announcing the availability of the source code and release 0.9.1 that features the unified tool bar and bottom bar components. And Brendon Chase has a short overview of the project on his blog.
• Jan Haderka has announced release 0.9.4 of SwingX project. The main changes in this version were previously announced cleanup of the API, added switch to completely disable caps lock detection in LoginPane and about 45 bug fixes.
• John O’Conner dives into the resource management layer of AppFramework reference implementation of JSR 296.
• And the big news of the week come from the prolific team behind the Groovy language. Griffon project is an MVC framework for Swing applications, using “convention over configuration” for its source structure and Groovy as its language. Read more from Danno Ferrin, Andres Almiray, James Williams, Guillaume Laforge and Geertjan Wielenga.