Converting a Java collection into a Scala collection

Question

Related to Stack Overflow question Scala equivalent of new HashSet(Collection) , how do I convert a Java collection (java.util.List say) into a Scala c

Answer 1

If you want to be more explicit than the JavaConversions demonstrated in robinst's answer, you can use JavaConverters:

import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
val l = new java.util.ArrayList[java.lang.String]
val s = l.asScala.toSet