Scala(ble) plugin in OpenMOLE

Scala operates smoothly with Java and has some advantages of a cutting age language such as providing both functional and object oriented programming, scalability, types inference, concise syntax... Therefore we have integrated the possibility of extend OpenMOLE with plugin written in Scala or mixed Scala and Java.

The first example, is the DataSetDistributionTask plugin. I am pretty new to Scala (and functional programming) and for now the source code structure is close to a Java version, but Scala possibilities will be explored as my Scala knowledge will grow.

In the current Scala version (2.7) provides limited interoperability with Java collections. It will be tackled in the version 2.8