Part 2. Working with Scala

These five chapters in part 2 focus on working with Scala. You’ll build applications using the Simple Build Tool (SBT), connect to a database using Squeryl, build scalable and reusable components in Scala, and use actors to make concurrent programming easy.

Chapters 6 and 7 are companions, or rather, chapter 7 is an extension of chapter 6. In chapter 6 you’ll learn how to create a simple web application using the SBT and the Scalaz HTTP module. But the application you set out to build in chapter 6 won’t be complete by chapter’s end because to build a functional Kanban application, your application needs to store information such as stories and its status information into persistent storage. In chapter 7 you will complete ...

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