diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/ActorSystem.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/ActorSystem.scala
index a9528a57aa..212ee9372d 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/ActorSystem.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/ActorSystem.scala
@@ -676,8 +676,8 @@ private[akka] class ActorSystemImpl(val name: String, applicationConfig: Config,
   def hasExtension(ext: ExtensionId[_ <: Extension]): Boolean = findExtension(ext) != null
 
   private def loadExtensions() {
-    import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
-    settings.config.getStringList("akka.extensions") foreach { fqcn ⇒
+    import scala.collection.JavaConverters.collectionAsScalaIterableConverter
+    settings.config.getStringList("akka.extensions").asScala foreach { fqcn ⇒
       dynamicAccess.getObjectFor[AnyRef](fqcn) recoverWith { case _ ⇒ dynamicAccess.createInstanceFor[AnyRef](fqcn, Seq()) } match {
         case Success(p: ExtensionIdProvider) ⇒ registerExtension(p.lookup())
         case Success(p: ExtensionId[_])      ⇒ registerExtension(p)
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/FaultHandling.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/FaultHandling.scala
index fbee491664..d72389ae5e 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/FaultHandling.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/actor/FaultHandling.scala
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import language.implicitConversions
 
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
 import scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer
-import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
 import java.lang.{ Iterable ⇒ JIterable }
 import scala.concurrent.duration.Duration
 /**
@@ -195,7 +194,10 @@ object SupervisorStrategy extends SupervisorStrategyLowPriorityImplicits {
    * Decider builder which just checks whether one of
    * the given Throwables matches the cause and restarts, otherwise escalates.
    */
-  def makeDecider(trapExit: JIterable[Class[_ <: Throwable]]): Decider = makeDecider(trapExit.toSeq)
+  def makeDecider(trapExit: JIterable[Class[_ <: Throwable]]): Decider = {
+    import scala.collection.JavaConverters.iterableAsScalaIterableConverter
+    makeDecider(trapExit.asScala.toSeq)
+  }
 
   /**
    * Decider builder for Iterables of cause-directive pairs, e.g. a map obtained
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/Future.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/Future.scala
index 113215cd23..59c0afe5aa 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/Future.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/dispatch/Future.scala
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ object ExecutionContexts {
  * Futures is the Java API for Futures and Promises
  */
 object Futures {
-
+  import scala.collection.JavaConverters.iterableAsScalaIterableConverter
   /**
    * Java API, equivalent to Future.apply
    */
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ object Futures {
    */
   def find[T <: AnyRef](futures: JIterable[Future[T]], predicate: JFunc[T, java.lang.Boolean], executor: ExecutionContext): Future[JOption[T]] = {
     implicit val ec = executor
-    Future.find[T]((scala.collection.JavaConversions.iterableAsScalaIterable(futures)))(predicate.apply(_))(executor).map(JOption.fromScalaOption(_))
+    Future.find[T](futures.asScala)(predicate.apply(_))(executor).map(JOption.fromScalaOption(_))
   }
 
   /**
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ object Futures {
    * Returns a Future to the result of the first future in the list that is completed
    */
   def firstCompletedOf[T <: AnyRef](futures: JIterable[Future[T]], executor: ExecutionContext): Future[T] =
-    Future.firstCompletedOf(scala.collection.JavaConversions.iterableAsScalaIterable(futures))(executor)
+    Future.firstCompletedOf(futures.asScala)(executor)
 
   /**
    * Java API
@@ -113,14 +113,14 @@ object Futures {
    * or the result of the fold.
    */
   def fold[T <: AnyRef, R <: AnyRef](zero: R, futures: JIterable[Future[T]], fun: akka.japi.Function2[R, T, R], executor: ExecutionContext): Future[R] =
-    Future.fold(scala.collection.JavaConversions.iterableAsScalaIterable(futures))(zero)(fun.apply)(executor)
+    Future.fold(futures.asScala)(zero)(fun.apply)(executor)
 
   /**
    * Java API.
    * Reduces the results of the supplied futures and binary function.
    */
   def reduce[T <: AnyRef, R >: T](futures: JIterable[Future[T]], fun: akka.japi.Function2[R, T, R], executor: ExecutionContext): Future[R] =
-    Future.reduce[T, R](scala.collection.JavaConversions.iterableAsScalaIterable(futures))(fun.apply)(executor)
+    Future.reduce[T, R](futures.asScala)(fun.apply)(executor)
 
   /**
    * Java API.
@@ -129,9 +129,7 @@ object Futures {
    */
   def sequence[A](in: JIterable[Future[A]], executor: ExecutionContext): Future[JIterable[A]] = {
     implicit val d = executor
-    scala.collection.JavaConversions.iterableAsScalaIterable(in).foldLeft(Future(new JLinkedList[A]())) { (fr, fa) ⇒
-      for (r ← fr; a ← fa) yield { r add a; r }
-    }
+    in.asScala.foldLeft(Future(new JLinkedList[A]())) { (fr, fa) ⇒ for (r ← fr; a ← fa) yield { r add a; r } }
   }
 
   /**
@@ -142,7 +140,7 @@ object Futures {
    */
   def traverse[A, B](in: JIterable[A], fn: JFunc[A, Future[B]], executor: ExecutionContext): Future[JIterable[B]] = {
     implicit val d = executor
-    scala.collection.JavaConversions.iterableAsScalaIterable(in).foldLeft(Future(new JLinkedList[B]())) { (fr, a) ⇒
+    in.asScala.foldLeft(Future(new JLinkedList[B]())) { (fr, a) ⇒
       val fb = fn(a)
       for (r ← fr; b ← fb) yield { r add b; r }
     }
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/japi/JavaAPI.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/japi/JavaAPI.scala
index 642600f2bd..ee2a688345 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/japi/JavaAPI.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/japi/JavaAPI.scala
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import scala.Some
 import scala.reflect.ClassTag
 import scala.util.control.NoStackTrace
 import scala.runtime.AbstractPartialFunction
+import java.util.Collections.{ emptyList, singletonList }
 
 /**
  * A Function interface. Used to create first-class-functions is Java.
@@ -114,13 +115,11 @@ abstract class JavaPartialFunction[A, B] extends AbstractPartialFunction[A, B] {
  * Java API
  */
 sealed abstract class Option[A] extends java.lang.Iterable[A] {
-  import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
-
   def get: A
   def isEmpty: Boolean
   def isDefined: Boolean = !isEmpty
   def asScala: scala.Option[A]
-  def iterator: java.util.Iterator[A] = if (isEmpty) Iterator.empty else Iterator.single(get)
+  def iterator: java.util.Iterator[A] = if (isEmpty) emptyList[A].iterator else singletonList(get).iterator
 }
 
 object Option {
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/routing/ConsistentHashingRouter.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/routing/ConsistentHashingRouter.scala
index cdfd040ace..71a36be2b7 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/routing/ConsistentHashingRouter.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/routing/ConsistentHashingRouter.scala
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  */
 package akka.routing
 
-import scala.collection.JavaConversions.iterableAsScalaIterable
+import scala.collection.JavaConverters.iterableAsScalaIterableConverter
 import scala.util.control.NonFatal
 import akka.actor.ActorRef
 import akka.actor.SupervisorStrategy
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ case class ConsistentHashingRouter(
    * @param routeePaths string representation of the actor paths of the routees that will be looked up
    *   using `actorFor` in [[akka.actor.ActorRefProvider]]
    */
-  def this(routeePaths: java.lang.Iterable[String]) = this(routees = iterableAsScalaIterable(routeePaths))
+  def this(routeePaths: java.lang.Iterable[String]) = this(routees = routeePaths.asScala)
 
   /**
    * Constructor that sets the resizer to be used.
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/routing/Routing.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/routing/Routing.scala
index ac4f55bd7c..9ccf43fb58 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/routing/Routing.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/routing/Routing.scala
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import scala.concurrent.duration._
 import akka.ConfigurationException
 import akka.pattern.pipe
 import com.typesafe.config.Config
-import scala.collection.JavaConversions.iterableAsScalaIterable
+import scala.collection.JavaConverters.iterableAsScalaIterableConverter
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.{ AtomicLong, AtomicBoolean }
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
 import scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ThreadLocalRandom
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ abstract class CustomRouterConfig extends RouterConfig {
     val customRoute = createCustomRoute(routeeProvider)
 
     {
-      case (sender, message) ⇒ customRoute.destinationsFor(sender, message)
+      case (sender, message) ⇒ customRoute.destinationsFor(sender, message).asScala
     }
   }
 
@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ case class RoundRobinRouter(nrOfInstances: Int = 0, routees: Iterable[String] =
    * @param routeePaths string representation of the actor paths of the routees that will be looked up
    *   using `actorFor` in [[akka.actor.ActorRefProvider]]
    */
-  def this(routeePaths: java.lang.Iterable[String]) = this(routees = iterableAsScalaIterable(routeePaths))
+  def this(routeePaths: java.lang.Iterable[String]) = this(routees = routeePaths.asScala)
 
   /**
    * Constructor that sets the resizer to be used.
@@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ case class RandomRouter(nrOfInstances: Int = 0, routees: Iterable[String] = Nil,
    * @param routeePaths string representation of the actor paths of the routees that will be looked up
    *   using `actorFor` in [[akka.actor.ActorRefProvider]]
    */
-  def this(routeePaths: java.lang.Iterable[String]) = this(routees = iterableAsScalaIterable(routeePaths))
+  def this(routeePaths: java.lang.Iterable[String]) = this(routees = routeePaths.asScala)
 
   /**
    * Constructor that sets the resizer to be used.
@@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ case class SmallestMailboxRouter(nrOfInstances: Int = 0, routees: Iterable[Strin
    * @param routeePaths string representation of the actor paths of the routees that will be looked up
    *   using `actorFor` in [[akka.actor.ActorRefProvider]]
    */
-  def this(routeePaths: java.lang.Iterable[String]) = this(routees = iterableAsScalaIterable(routeePaths))
+  def this(routeePaths: java.lang.Iterable[String]) = this(routees = routeePaths.asScala)
 
   /**
    * Constructor that sets the resizer to be used.
@@ -1064,7 +1064,7 @@ case class BroadcastRouter(nrOfInstances: Int = 0, routees: Iterable[String] = N
    * @param routeePaths string representation of the actor paths of the routees that will be looked up
    *   using `actorFor` in [[akka.actor.ActorRefProvider]]
    */
-  def this(routeePaths: java.lang.Iterable[String]) = this(routees = iterableAsScalaIterable(routeePaths))
+  def this(routeePaths: java.lang.Iterable[String]) = this(routees = routeePaths.asScala)
 
   /**
    * Constructor that sets the resizer to be used.
@@ -1196,8 +1196,7 @@ case class ScatterGatherFirstCompletedRouter(nrOfInstances: Int = 0, routees: It
    * @param routeePaths string representation of the actor paths of the routees that will be looked up
    *   using `actorFor` in [[akka.actor.ActorRefProvider]]
    */
-  def this(routeePaths: java.lang.Iterable[String], w: FiniteDuration) =
-    this(routees = iterableAsScalaIterable(routeePaths), within = w)
+  def this(routeePaths: java.lang.Iterable[String], w: FiniteDuration) = this(routees = routeePaths.asScala, within = w)
 
   /**
    * Constructor that sets the resizer to be used.
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/util/Index.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/util/Index.scala
index 3289ed8f13..ccaab901c3 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/util/Index.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/util/Index.scala
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import annotation.tailrec
 
 import java.util.concurrent.{ ConcurrentSkipListSet, ConcurrentHashMap }
 import java.util.{ Comparator, Set ⇒ JSet }
+import scala.collection.JavaConverters.{ asScalaIteratorConverter, collectionAsScalaIterableConverter }
 import scala.collection.mutable
 
 /**
@@ -71,12 +72,11 @@ class Index[K, V](val mapSize: Int, val valueComparator: Comparator[V]) {
    * @return Some(value) for the first matching value where the supplied function returns true for the given key,
    * if no matches it returns None
    */
-  def findValue(key: K)(f: (V) ⇒ Boolean): Option[V] = {
-    import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
-    val set = container get key
-    if (set ne null) set.iterator.find(f)
-    else None
-  }
+  def findValue(key: K)(f: (V) ⇒ Boolean): Option[V] =
+    container get key match {
+      case null ⇒ None
+      case set  ⇒ set.iterator.asScala.find(f)
+    }
 
   /**
    * Returns an Iterator of V containing the values for the supplied key, or an empty iterator if the key doesn't exist
@@ -84,27 +84,24 @@ class Index[K, V](val mapSize: Int, val valueComparator: Comparator[V]) {
   def valueIterator(key: K): scala.Iterator[V] = {
     container.get(key) match {
       case null ⇒ Iterator.empty
-      case some ⇒ scala.collection.JavaConversions.asScalaIterator(some.iterator())
+      case some ⇒ some.iterator.asScala
     }
   }
 
   /**
    * Applies the supplied function to all keys and their values
    */
-  def foreach(fun: (K, V) ⇒ Unit): Unit = {
-    import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
-    container.entrySet foreach { e ⇒ e.getValue.foreach(fun(e.getKey, _)) }
-  }
+  def foreach(fun: (K, V) ⇒ Unit): Unit =
+    container.entrySet.iterator.asScala foreach { e ⇒ e.getValue.iterator.asScala.foreach(fun(e.getKey, _)) }
 
   /**
    * Returns the union of all value sets.
    */
   def values: Set[V] = {
-    import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
     val builder = mutable.Set.empty[V]
     for {
-      entry ← container.entrySet
-      v ← entry.getValue
+      values ← container.values.iterator.asScala
+      v ← values.iterator.asScala
     } builder += v
     builder.toSet
   }
@@ -112,7 +109,7 @@ class Index[K, V](val mapSize: Int, val valueComparator: Comparator[V]) {
   /**
    * Returns the key set.
    */
-  def keys: Iterable[K] = scala.collection.JavaConversions.collectionAsScalaIterable(container.keySet)
+  def keys: Iterable[K] = container.keySet.asScala
 
   /**
    * Disassociates the value of type V from the key of type K
diff --git a/akka-camel/src/main/scala/akka/camel/CamelMessage.scala b/akka-camel/src/main/scala/akka/camel/CamelMessage.scala
index 8b0dbef50a..70fd61bd2a 100644
--- a/akka-camel/src/main/scala/akka/camel/CamelMessage.scala
+++ b/akka-camel/src/main/scala/akka/camel/CamelMessage.scala
@@ -5,21 +5,18 @@
 package akka.camel
 
 import java.util.{ Map ⇒ JMap, Set ⇒ JSet }
-
-import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
-
 import org.apache.camel.{ CamelContext, Message ⇒ JCamelMessage }
 import akka.AkkaException
 import scala.reflect.ClassTag
+import scala.util.Try
+import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
 import akka.dispatch.Mapper
-import util.{ Success, Failure, Try }
 
 /**
  * An immutable representation of a Camel message.
  * @author Martin Krasser
  */
 case class CamelMessage(body: Any, headers: Map[String, Any]) {
-
   def this(body: Any, headers: JMap[String, Any]) = this(body, headers.toMap) //for Java
 
   override def toString: String = "CamelMessage(%s, %s)" format (body, headers)
@@ -76,8 +73,7 @@ case class CamelMessage(body: Any, headers: Map[String, Any]) {
    * <p>
    * Java API
    */
-  def getHeaderAs[T](name: String, clazz: Class[T], camelContext: CamelContext): T =
-    headerAs[T](name)(ClassTag(clazz), camelContext).get
+  def getHeaderAs[T](name: String, clazz: Class[T], camelContext: CamelContext): T = headerAs[T](name)(ClassTag(clazz), camelContext).get
 
   /**
    * Returns a new CamelMessage with a transformed body using a <code>transformer</code> function.
diff --git a/akka-camel/src/main/scala/akka/camel/internal/CamelExchangeAdapter.scala b/akka-camel/src/main/scala/akka/camel/internal/CamelExchangeAdapter.scala
index 5750856b37..1d16c3003e 100644
--- a/akka-camel/src/main/scala/akka/camel/internal/CamelExchangeAdapter.scala
+++ b/akka-camel/src/main/scala/akka/camel/internal/CamelExchangeAdapter.scala
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 package akka.camel.internal
 
-import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
-
 import org.apache.camel.util.ExchangeHelper
-
 import org.apache.camel.{ Exchange, Message ⇒ JCamelMessage }
 import akka.camel.{ FailureResult, AkkaCamelException, CamelMessage }
 
@@ -83,8 +80,10 @@ private[camel] class CamelExchangeAdapter(val exchange: Exchange) {
    *
    * @see AkkaCamelException
    */
-  def toAkkaCamelException(headers: Map[String, Any]): AkkaCamelException =
+  def toAkkaCamelException(headers: Map[String, Any]): AkkaCamelException = {
+    import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
     new AkkaCamelException(exchange.getException, headers ++ response.getHeaders)
+  }
 
   /**
    * Creates an immutable Failure object from the adapted Exchange so it can be used internally between Actors.
@@ -101,7 +100,10 @@ private[camel] class CamelExchangeAdapter(val exchange: Exchange) {
    *
    * @see Failure
    */
-  def toFailureResult(headers: Map[String, Any]): FailureResult = FailureResult(exchange.getException, headers ++ response.getHeaders)
+  def toFailureResult(headers: Map[String, Any]): FailureResult = {
+    import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
+    FailureResult(exchange.getException, headers ++ response.getHeaders)
+  }
 
   /**
    * Creates an immutable CamelMessage object from Exchange.getIn so it can be used with Actors.
diff --git a/akka-transactor/src/main/scala/akka/transactor/UntypedTransactor.scala b/akka-transactor/src/main/scala/akka/transactor/UntypedTransactor.scala
index 98899e0a13..69fcac66ad 100644
--- a/akka-transactor/src/main/scala/akka/transactor/UntypedTransactor.scala
+++ b/akka-transactor/src/main/scala/akka/transactor/UntypedTransactor.scala
@@ -5,13 +5,15 @@
 package akka.transactor
 
 import akka.actor.{ UntypedActor, ActorRef }
-import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
 import java.util.{ Set ⇒ JSet }
+import java.util.Collections.{ emptySet, singleton ⇒ singletonSet }
 
 /**
  * An UntypedActor version of transactor for using from Java.
  */
 abstract class UntypedTransactor extends UntypedActor {
+  import scala.collection.JavaConverters.asScalaSetConverter
+
   private val settings = TransactorExtension(context.system)
 
   /**
@@ -21,8 +23,7 @@ abstract class UntypedTransactor extends UntypedActor {
   final def onReceive(message: Any) {
     message match {
       case coordinated @ Coordinated(message) ⇒ {
-        val others = coordinate(message)
-        for (sendTo ← others) {
+        for (sendTo ← coordinate(message).asScala) {
           sendTo.actor ! coordinated(sendTo.message.getOrElse(message))
         }
         before(message)
@@ -49,19 +50,19 @@ abstract class UntypedTransactor extends UntypedActor {
   /**
    * Empty set of transactors to send to.
    */
-  def nobody: JSet[SendTo] = Set[SendTo]()
+  def nobody: JSet[SendTo] = emptySet()
 
   /**
    * For including one other actor in this coordinated transaction and sending
    * them the same message as received. Use as the result in `coordinated`.
    */
-  def include(actor: ActorRef): JSet[SendTo] = Set(SendTo(actor))
+  def include(actor: ActorRef): JSet[SendTo] = singletonSet(SendTo(actor))
 
   /**
    * For including one other actor in this coordinated transaction and specifying the
    * message to send. Use as the result in `coordinated`.
    */
-  def include(actor: ActorRef, message: Any): JSet[SendTo] = Set(SendTo(actor, Some(message)))
+  def include(actor: ActorRef, message: Any): JSet[SendTo] = singletonSet(SendTo(actor, Some(message)))
 
   /**
    * For including another actor in this coordinated transaction and sending