Converting Java list to a Scala list

To implicitly converting Java collections to Scala you need to import the following.
Very handy when you use Java libraries from Scala.

import scala.collection.JavaConversions._

will do the implicit conversion from Java List<T> to Scala List[T].

var computerScientists = new java.util.ArrayList[String]("Linus", "Doug Cutting", "Jon Postel")

computerScientists.foreach(println)

foreach is a function on collections in Scala