InfoQ Homepage Presentations Absorbing Scala in the Java Ecosystem

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.

Eishay Smith is Director of Engineering at kaChing, and a former Principal Software Engineer at LinkedIn. Previously, Smith worked for IBM Haifa Research Lab and as a project lead and architect at IBM Almaden Research Center.

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