Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics

Java interoperability

As we mentioned earlier, Scala has very rich collection API. The same applies for Java but there are lots of differences between the two collection APIs. For example, both APIs have iterable, iterators, maps, sets, and sequences. But Scala has advantages; it pays more attention to immutable collections and provides more operations for you in order to produce another collection. Sometimes, you want to use or access Java collections or vice versa.

JavaConversions is no longer a sound choice. JavaConverters makes the conversion between Scala and Java collection explicit and you'll be much less likely to experience implicit conversions you didn't intend to use.

As a matter of fact, it's quite trivial to do so because Scala ...