The Definitive Guide to Lift: A Scala-based Web Framework

by Marius Danciu, Tyler Weir, Derek Chen-Becker

Overview

The Definitive Guide to Lift will educate you about Lift, a great framework for building compelling web applications. Lift is designed to make powerful techniques easily accessible, while keeping the overall framework simple and flexible. Lift makes it fun to develop because it lets you focus on the interesting parts of coding.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to create and extend any web application you can think of.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430224211
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	05/15/2009
Series:	Expert's Voice in Open Source
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Marius Danciu spent the past 6 years architecting, designing, and leading development of highly scalable server-side applications based on J(2)EE platforms. Most applications were based on the data synchronization techniques (which in turn were based on the SyncML OMA standard) and adjacent technologies. For more than a year, Marius has been a committer to the LiftWeb framework, contributing to the design and implementation of various features in the framework.

Table of Contents

• Welcome to Lift
• PocketChange
• Lift Fundamentals
• Forms in Lift
• SiteMap
• Mapper and Record
• Advanced Lift Architecture
• Lift and JavaScript
• Lift with AJAX and Comet
• JPA Integration
• Third-Party Integrations
• Lift Widgets
• Web Services