Yes, this is what I'll need to do every time, which is crazy to adapt your code to the tools and then back again. And it's even val n = customer.getName()

Yes, this is what I'll need to do every time, which is crazy to adapt your code to the tools and then back again. And it's even val n = customer.getName() val f = n.firstName service.withname(f) Gladly with Some/None NPEs happen seldom with Scala but they do from interfacing with Java libs from time to time.