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Scala in Depth
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Scala in Depth

by Joshua Suereth
May 2012
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
10h 21m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 10. Integrating Scala with Java

 

In this chapter
  • The benefits of using interfaces for Scala-Java interaction
  • The dangers of automatic implicit conversions of Java types
  • The complications of Java serialization in Scala
  • How to effectively use annotations in Scala for Java libraries

 

One of the biggest advantages of the Scala language is its ability to seamlessly interact with existing Java libraries and applications. Although this interaction isn’t completely seamless, Scala offers the tightest integration to Java of any JVM language.

The key to knowing how to integrate Scala and Java lies in the Java Virtual Machine specification and how each language encodes onto that specification. Scala does its best to translate simple language ...

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