On April 17-18 the three of us attended the Scala Days 2012 conference in London. Many of the most known and active contributors to the Scala community were there – either as attendee or speaker. The conference was fully booked with 400 participants and so many on waiting list. We would like to give a [...]

Today I was writing an AspectJ aspect for a Scala trait and was wondering why my constructor pointcut definition didn’t work. Having a closer look at the Scala byte code together with my colleague Johan solved the puzzle. Here is what I did (using AspectJ 1.6.8 and Scala 2.8.Beta1): To start with here’s a simplified [...]

A couple of weeks ago I had a look at the Motodevstudio for Android developers and I think it has some quite nice features like code snippets or wizards for Android activities, services and more. Actually it’s is quite easy to extend the eclipse JDT and provide such useful plugins. This blog post is about [...]

There already some good blog posts about how to build OSGi bundles in Scala, among others “An OSGi Bundle… built in Scala” of Neil Bartlett and “OSGi, Maven and Scala” of Gavin Bong using pax-construct. Here is another alternative using Gradle. Gradle is an open-source build system providing the expressiveness of a Groovy based DSL [...]

Today we wanted to test the scala java interoperabilty in different IDEs. We used the Scala plugin for Eclipse, Netbeans and IntelliJ. The intellij plugin worked out of the box. We managed to get the eclipse plugin working after some trouble as well. Although the netbeans plugin seems promising the interoperability between java and scala [...]