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Rod Cope
CTO and Founder, OpenLogic, Inc.

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Rod Cope is the CTO and Founder of OpenLogic, Inc. He is a Sun Certified Java Architect with 25 years of software development experience, including 12 years of Java. He has developed Rails applications, J2EE applications, Swing GUIs, small device code, and nearly everything in between. For the last six years, he has been working on OpenLogic Enterprise, a supported collection of over 350 Open Source projects for enterprise developers. In particular, Rod has used Ruby, Rails, Groovy, JRuby, JBoss, Hibernate, AspectJ, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Ant, and many other Open Source projects extensively in commercial applications.

Rod has spoken on Groovy, JRuby, Rails, Hibernate, and other topics at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, JavaOne, the No Fluff, Just Stuff Java Symposium series, and Java User Groups around the country. He holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Software Engineering from the University of Louisville.

Sessions

1:45pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008

Groovy vs. JRuby

Java
Location: F150

Rod Cope (OpenLogic, Inc.)

Average rating:

(4.67, 6 ratings)

Groovy and JRuby are both dynamic, object-oriented scripting languages for the JVM. They both support tight, bi-directional integration with existing Java code and can compile to .class files that reside in jars. So, which is best for you? Which to learn if you only have time for one? Come see recommendations from someone who has put thousands of lines of each into production environments. Read more.