Scala

Scala Actors 101 - Threadless and Scalable

Application performance is no longer a free lunch, and with current hardware trends of cores-for-the-chores, the search is on for the programming model that...

2 replies - 3096 views - 08/12/08 by Debasish Ghosh in Articles

Are static typing and refactoring really connected?

One of the main problems brought out when comparing dynamic languages to static ones is lack of proper refactoring support. It is usually implied that dynamic...

0 replies - 1820 views - 08/11/08 by Jevgeni Kabanov in Articles

Scala OSGi Bundle With Spring DM

Today, the OSGi bundles concept with SSAP as the application server is one of the most interesting things that developer should know. In addition, Scala is...

1 replies - 2052 views - 08/05/08 by slim.ouertani in Articles

N-BRAIN's UNA Now Supports Groovy, Scala, Fan

N-BRAIN today announced release of the next micro version of UNA (1.0.7404). This version of UNA adds support for three new languages that run on the Java...

0 replies - 1016 views - 07/11/08 by jdegoes in Announcements

A Cross-Language Generics Trick - Java, Scala and C#

Given a Pair<T, U> type in Java, Scala or C#, such as Map.Entry, Tuple2 or KeyValuePair respectively, you can construct type-checked variadic...

0 replies - 2007 views - 06/25/08 by Ricky Clarkson in Articles

Comparing Closures in Java, Groovy and Scala

On Paul's return from JavaOne this year, we spoke about Neal Gafter's Closures Cookbook talk. From what I understood, this was a look at the BGGA closures...

2 replies - 1811 views - 06/16/08 by d6y in Articles

Closures in Java and Scala

People argue that verbose code is easier to understand. Do you agree when reading these two examples, one method in Java, one in Scala?

11 replies - 2395 views - 05/21/08 by joern.zaefferer in News

Scala Goes Dynamic with JavaRebel

As a scalable language Scala can be used both for scripting and for large enterprise applications. We at ZeroTurnaround respect and support the vision of a...

0 replies - 1205 views - 05/21/08 by Jevgeni Kabanov in News

Scala Liftoff

I stayed around in San Francisco for one more day after JavaOne, in order to attend the Scala liftoff. The liftoff was an open space style conference (which...

0 replies - 1403 views - 05/16/08 by twleung in News

Groovy (and Ruby) Only Solves Half the Problem

It is with some dismay I've been reading the latest Groovy discussions on Javalobby. I've spent quite some time learning Scala, so it bothered me a bit that I...

10 replies - 7101 views - 02/20/08 by Mats Henricson in News

Clustered Scala

There has been a lot of discussion about the different concurrency models provided in languages like Java (shared-state) vs those provided in languages like...

0 replies - 1419 views - 01/25/08 by Alex Miller in News

The busy Java developer's guide to Scala

Ted Neward, popular developer, author and speaker, wrote an introductory article for Scala, which is on IBM developerWorks.The busy Java developer's guide to...

0 replies - 1439 views - 01/24/08 by Rick Hightower in News

Year of the Snake: JVM Languages, which would you pick?

"TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007" making it the 6th most popular language. According to the Tiobe report increased by over 2%....

0 replies - 1770 views - 01/20/08 by Rick Hightower in News