Real World Groovy

You are considering Groovy for your next project. You search the web for more information only to get conflicting or incomplete information. It's hard to distinguish FUD from fact. In this session, we go beyond the theoretical and discuss everything you want to know about using Groovy in a real world corporate Java project. This presentation is based upon four years of actual experience using Groovy as part of a large J2EE project at a Fortune 500 Insurance company as well as using Groovy and Grails on two medium-sized corporate projects.

We will review code examples using Spring, Groovy collections and Groovy decimal math. We will cover compiling Groovy in Ant build scripts and code coverage for Groovy classes. We will show why Groovy is an excellent choice for test driven development. Finally, we will also cover some decision points for incorporating Groovy into a real business project and strategies for mitigating risk.

About Scott Hickey

A Principal Enterprise Architect with Mutual of Omaha, Scott Hickey has been developing software for over 25 years. He has been working with Java since 1998 and Groovy since 2005. He was the lead developer for the Groovy Eclipse Plugin and as well as a president of the Omaha Java User Group.

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