Published 2017-11-29.

This article is categorized under Ethereum, Open Source, Scala.

This video shows web3j-scala, an idiomatic Scala wrapper I wrote around web3j, which is a Java 8 version of web3.js. These 3 libraries all leverage the json-rpc protocol that all Ethereum clients support. Web3j is a lightweight, reactive, somewhat type-safe library for Java and Android that integrates with nodes on Ethereum blockchains. Web3j-scala provides type safety and enhanced scalability over its Java and JavaScript cousins, as well as the pleasure of writing solutions in Scala.

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Much of the material for this presentation was taken from the web3j-scala GitHub page.