Introduction
The basics
Advanced concepts
Defining “Java friendly DAOs” in Scala
A key goal in the design of Scala was interoperability with Java, and Martin Odersky succeeded amazingly well in this regard.
Once a build is setup for compiling Java and Scala sources, the rest is very straight forward.
- Setup a build
- Define the Schema classes in Scala, persistent classes should use @BeanInfo annotations, this will cause the compiler to generate Java style getters and setters for every property, the class will then look exactly like POJOs in the Java code.
- Define DAOs (query wrappers) in Scala, with methods that take “Java friendly” types, which means any Scala types provided that they don’t involve too many fancy closures !