Scala: Guide for Data Science Professionals

Tools and frameworks

Before getting your hands dirty, you need to download and deploy a minimum set of tools and libraries so as not to reinvent the wheel. A few key components have to be installed in order to compile and run the source code described throughout the book. We focus on open source and commonly available libraries, although you are invited to experiment with equivalent tools of your choice. The learning curve for the frameworks described here is minimal.

Java

The code described in the book has been tested with JDK 1.7.0_45 and JDK 1.8.0_25 on Windows x64 and MacOS X x64 . You need to install the Java Development Kit if you have not already done so. Finally, the environment variables JAVA_HOME, PATH, and CLASSPATH have to be updated ...