Scala Faq

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This is the FAQ page collects useful links about the Scala Language. Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. It is also fully interoperable with Java.

Contents

Language

Language Specification (PDF)

Scala API Specification

Tutorials

First Steps to Scala (Bill Venners, Martin Odersky, and Lex Spoon)

Getting Started with Scala

Scala By Example (PDF) (Martin Odersky)

A Scala Tutorial for Java programmers (PDF) (Michel Schinz, Philipp Haller)

The busy Java developer's guide to Scala by Ted Neward

Functional programming for the object oriented

Class action

Don't get thrown for a loop!

Of traits and behaviors

Scala and XML: XML processing made easy (Michael Galpin)

Books

Programming in Scala (2008) ISBN 0981531601
The first book about the Scala programming langauge.

Tools

Scala Distribution

ScalaTest is a free, open-source testing tool for Scala and Java programmers. It is written in Scala, and enables you to write tests in Scala to test either Scala or Java code.

Eclipse Scala Plugin

IntelliJ IDEA Scala Plugin

NetBeans and Scala

Lift is an expressive and elegant framework for writing web applications. Lift stresses the importance of security, maintainability, scalability and performance, while allowing for high levels of developer productivity. Lift borrows from the best of existing frameworks, providing Seaside's highly granular sessions and security; Rails fast flash-to-bang; Django's "more than just CRUD is included"; Wicket's designer-friendly templating style. And because Lift applications are written in Scala, an elegant new JVM language, you can still use your favorite Java libraries and deploy to your favorite Servlet Container. Use the code you've already written and deploy to the container you've already configured!

sbt is a simple build tool for Scala projects that aims to do the basics well. It requires Java 1.5 or later.

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