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.Metadatadef 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

- `getApplicationName()` - same result as `meta['app.name']`
- `getApplicationVersion()` - same result as `meta['app.version']`
- `getGriffonVersion()` - same result as `meta['app.griffon.version']`
- `getGriffonStartDir()` - returns the value of `'griffon.start.dir'` from the System properties
- `getGriffonWorkingDir()` - returns a File that points to `'griffon.start.dir'` if the value is set and the file is writable, otherwise returns a File pointing to the current location if it is writable; if that fails then attempts to return a File pointing to `'user.dir'`; if all fail it will return the location to a temporal file, typically `'/tmp/${griffonAppName}'`.