Groovy receives
JAX Innovation Award 07

Basel, Switzerland – April 30, 2007 – Canoo congratulates the Groovy team on receiving the JAX Innovation Award for 2007.

The JAX Innovation Award is awarded once a year at the JAX conference, a leading Java developer event in Europe, with the aim of promoting innovative projects, products and ideas and to increase their chances of succeeding.

Dierk König, Senior Software Engineer at Canoo, Groovy developer and committer, received the prize on behalf of the Groovy team, at a ceremony held last week at JAX 07 in Wiesbaden. He is co-founder of Canoo Engineering and recently published a best-selling book on Groovy.

Groovy is an agile dynamic language for the Java Platform with many features that are inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk, making modern programming features available to Java developers with almost-zero learning curve. More information on Groovy is available at: http://groovy.codehaus.org/

About Canoo

Canoo is a solution provider for Rich Internet Applications (RIA) based in Basel, Switzerland. It offers consulting services and end-to-end development of Enterprise Web applications. With 10 years of experience in Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology, Canoo is a leading expert in Web 2.0 applications, Java rich clients, and AJAX. Canoo’s RIA technology and web testing products are used in more than 60 countries worldwide.

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