Scala concepts

The following notes are taken after reading “Programming in Scala second edition”,
by Martin Oderdky, Lex Spoon and Bill Venners.

Valid operator characters

Scala syntax allows method names to use special characters such as +, * and :, and 
to use them as infix operators, which effectively allows operator overloading.

Mixing java collections with scala streams

To convert a java collection to a scala stream, you can use the scala-java8-compat library (https://github.com/scala/scala-java8-compat).

Mixed Scala and Java8 in Maven Project

With the scala-maven-plugin it is possible to mix java and scale code en compile it with maven.
This is descibed in a blog of Xiaofeng Lin : http://xflin.blogspot.nl/2013/08/mixed-scala-and-java-in-maven-project.html