Access to the application's metadata file (application.properties) is available by querying the griffon.util.Metadata singleton. Here's a snippet of code that shows how to setup a welcome message that displays the application's name and version, along with its Griffon version

import griffon.util.Metadata

def meta = Metadata.current application(title: "Some app", package: true) { gridLayout cols: 1, rows: 2 label "Hello, I'm ${meta['app.name']}-${meta['app.version']}" label "Built with Griffon ${meta['app.griffon.version']}" }

There are also a few helpful methods on this class