Eishay Smith presents the main differences between Scala and Java, explaining how the Java developers can start integrate Scala code into their development, building, testing and runtime environments. Smith also talks about Scala’s learning curve, IDE integration issues and problems people face when Scala is introduced to their organization.
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Polyglot programming is here and can improve your style. The first part of this session will look at libraries and techniques that you can use with today’s Java 6, and a peek ahead to Java 7. In the second part of this session we will look at Scala, it similarities to Java, and it’s easy access improvements. Along the way, some functional techniques will be introduced where they make sense, and where they make life easier. This is intended to be like easing into a warm swimming pool rather than …

Miles Sabin gives a brief introduction to Scala for Java developers covering the basic features of Scala which make it such a productive alternative to Java. He also shows how Scala can be introduced to existing Java projects without the need for a Big Bang migration process, by reusing existing libraries and tools from the Java ecosystems and migrating class by class.
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In this episode we sat in the hands of God with Carl Quinn and Joe Nuxoll of the Java Posse – a weekly Java-related podcast. As expected we discussed the current state of Java, Scala, and other fun topics.

An interview with Stuart Halloway, author of “Programming Clojure” and the “Java.next” article series. He talks about how evaluating Groovy, JRuby, Scala, and Clojure eventually lead him to write a book on Clojure.

Scott Davis interviewed Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, author of both Programming Scala and Programming Groovy. They talked about how each language fits comfortably into the toolkit of the modern Java developer. According to Venkat, “Groovy and Scala are good friends.”

Scala is a new language for the Java Platform that blends object-oriented and functional programming concepts. This talk will focus on the design choices of Scala, and what they mean for developer productivity. The talk will highlight what it means to program in a functional style, and show you how Scala facilitates programming in a hybrid of both functional and imperative styles. The talk will also explore how Scala compares to dynamic languages such as Ruby and Python. And you’ll see examples of real, production Scala code that will illustrate …