Scala/Java integration will always be somewhat of a problem, that requires thought and effort to get right. Any default way of converting between classes will leave some people going "WTF?". Jorge Ortiz's scala-javautils[1] can be helpful. Googling for these utils will lead to some blogposts discussing the problems of fully automatic conversion.<p>[1] <a href="http://github.com/jorgeortiz85/scala-javautils" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/jorgeortiz85/scala-javautils</a>