Groovy After All These Years

In 2005, a team at Mutual of Omaha selected Groovy for building a mission critical group insurance pricing engine. At the time, this was one of the largest commercial uses of Groovy. In this session, Scott Hickey, the technical lead on the project, will discuss why Groovy was selected, what the concerns were at the time and how Groovy has been instrumental in the continued success of this project that has been in production for over seven years.

In this Q&A style session, we’ll dive into areas such as maintenance, language stability, tooling, testing, staffing and expanding Groovy’s reach at Mutual of Omaha beyond this project. This session will be a great opportunity to ask questions about what it was like to build a mission critical application using Groovy as well as what to expect when it comes to production support, bug fixes and enhancements.

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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