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Stephan Ewen commented on FLINK-1962: ------------------------------------- In Scala, you usually use the Scala tuples. The Java tuples were introduced, because: - we wanted to keep the Scala dependencies out of the Java API - they can be used in a mutable way, which allows you to make some performance optimizations - we wound that certain Java programmers were confused by the scala tuples and the fields counting from _1 (where the tuple positions in the keys count from 0) That being said, you should be able to use scala tuples in the Java API, if you prefer that... > Add Gelly Scala API > ------------------- > > Key: FLINK-1962 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1962 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Task > Components: Gelly, Scala API > Affects Versions: 0.9 > Reporter: Vasia Kalavri > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)