Lift (web framework)

Lift is a free web framework. It offers advantages similar to Ruby on Rails, but lift applications in Scala instead of Ruby are written and not usually based on the Model View Controller architectural pattern. The use of Scala means that existing Java libraries and EJB container can be used immediately.

Lift applications are packaged as Web Archives and stored on any servlet container (such as Tomcat or Jetty ). For lift Java development environments are used, such as Eclipse, NetBeans or IDEA. Dynamic content can be edited in standard XHTML editors. Lift benefits greatly from the performance and portability of the Java VM, the tools of Java development, the sophisticated collections of Java libraries and the advantages of the Scala language.

Lift was started as an open source project on 26 February 2007 and reached exactly two years later, the version 1.0.

Meanwhile lift (as of: June 2, 2013) version 2.5 available.

Uses

A popular use of lift be found for example in Foursquare. At the beginning Foursquare based on PHP, but the developers decided due to the limitations of PHP, switch to lift. Novell Vibe is also based on lift.

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