Added Scala with Maven tutorial

[Raekye]

• Basic Maven information
• Usage with scala-maven-plugin

[retronym]

Hi @Raekye,

I've only just noticed this contribution. I'm really sorry it has been sitting around in limbo for this long.

The guide looks really useful to me. I'm not sure whether the state of the art has advanced since you wrote this guide.

e.g:

• What is the latest version of the maven-scala-plugin?
• We could link to our sample Maven project that shows how to depend on the newly-modularized standard library.

But I'd be in favour of merging this as is and accepting any tweaks as a followup.

@sjrd @heathermiller What are your thoughts on how this guide fits into the site?

[Raekye]

Hi @retronym,

Sorry for my delay getting back. I just ran through it again and made couple minor updates. As for the "state of the art", I didn't find any newer/better scala plugins, but I usually use Gradle now because its Scala integration is much more streamlined (their docs/tutorial cover this well).

I've also linked to the sample project

[retronym]

Thanks! I've just sent a note out to scala-internals to see if I can find another reviewer with Maven smarts. I aim to merge this by the end of the week.

[retronym]

We got this suggestion on the mailing list:

m2e and https://github.com/sonatype/m2eclipse-scala

should be mentioned as alternatives to the maven-eclipse-plugin. There are advantages and disadvantages to each; I prefer m2e.

[Raekye]

I'll take a look and add instructions soon. Thanks!

[Raekye]

@retronym I've added instructions on installing m2eclipse-scala and importing/starting a new project

[retronym]

Thank you. I'm merging now, perhaps you can double check how it looks on the site (might take up to 30m to propagate).

[Raekye]

I checked it at http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/scala-with-maven.html and it looks good, and I'll try to keep it updated. By the way, is there supposed to be an index of tutorials? On http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/ there's the tour of the language on the right, FAQs and language guides on the left

[retronym]

Looks like you'll have to add your new tutorial to the index by hand. /cc @heathermiller for guidance on the layout. We might want to add placeholders for SBT and Gradle (even if they just link to third party docs) so as to have a "Building your Code" section in the index.

[heathermiller]

There are some rendering errors on the layout.

[heathermiller]

Got it, looks like there was just one :) Thanks for the contribution!