Summary

Scala in Depth

is a unique new book designed to help you integrate Scala effectively into your development process. By presenting the emerging best practices and designs from the Scala community, it guides you through dozens of powerful techniques example by example.

About the Book

Scala is a powerful JVM language that blends the functional and OO programming models. You'll have no trouble getting introductions to Scala in books or online, but it's hard to find great examples and insights from experienced practitioners. You'll find them in Scala in Depth.

There's little heavy-handed theory here—just dozens of crisp, practical techniques for coding in Scala. Written for readers who know Java, Scala, or another OO language.

What's Inside

Concise, expressive, and readable code style

How to integrate Scala into your existing Java projects

Scala's 2.8.0 collections API

How to use actors for concurrent programming

Mastering the Scala type system

Scala's OO features—type member inheritance, multiple inheritance, and composition

Functional concepts and patterns—immutability, applicative functors, and monads

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Table of Contents

Scala—a blended language

The core rules

Modicum of style—coding conventions

Utilizing object orientation

Using implicits to write expressive code

The type system

Using implicits and types together

Using the right collection

Actors

Integrating Scala with Java

Patterns in functional programming

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