[_Codemonkeyism]

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.