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 !