Using Java libraries in Scala
The equivalent code would be:
object HelloWorld extends App {
println("Hello, world!")
}
If you saved that code in a file called HelloWorld.scala
then you could compile and run it like so:
$ scalac HelloWorld.scala
$ scala HelloWorld
Hello, world!
Or if you are working in the REPL:
scala> :paste
// Entering paste mode (ctrl-D to finish)
object HelloWorld extends App {
println("Hello, world!")
}
// Exiting paste mode, now interpreting.
defined module HelloWorld
scala> HelloWorld.main(Array.empty[String])
Hello, world!
In your example, you just have a main, not a function you would necessarily call from somewhere else. But let's said you did have a function like
package com.example.hello;
public class HelloWorld {
public static void sayHello() {
System.out.println("Hello, world!");
}
}
(I also added a package for your example, for completeness). Then in your Scala code, you could do:
import com.example.hello._
object GreetWorld extends App {
(0 until 10).foreach {
HelloWorld.sayHello()
}
}
to say hello using the Java function 10 times in Scala. The ._
in the import
imports all members of the package, or alternatively you could just import com.example.hello.HelloWorld
. You could even import the method itself with import com.example.hello.HelloWorld.sayHello
so that you don't need to reference the HelloWorld
object in your code.
Both languages compile into JVM bytecode, so calling Java code from Scala is very simple, although calling Scala from Java can be trickier if there are are implicit parameters involved.