Scala on Eclipse without the plugin
kaChing Engineering: Scala on Eclipse without the plugin
Eishay Smith outlines how to get Scala colour editing and compiling within Eclipse, using a couple of editor plugins and a bash script (*nix target).
Unfortunately, as I’ve recently found to my lament, the ScalaIDE Eclipse plugin is not production ready on Eclipse Helios 3.6, so, in the interim, maybe this info can help out.