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

You could convert the Java collection to an array and then create a Scala list from that:

val array = java.util.Arrays.asList("one","two","three").toArray
val list = List.fromArray(array)