Lift is a Web framework in the vein of Seaside and WebObjects. Lift is built on Scala, a functional/OO hybrid lanugage that runs on the Java Virtual Machine.
In contrast to frameworks oriented around the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern, Lift abstracts the HTTP request~response cycle rather than wrapping HTTP concepts in APIs. Lift makes use of Scala's functional abstractions in a way that allows composition of applications.
In this tutorial, we will build a multiuser, real-time chat application in Lift and discuss Scala's language features that make Lift possible.
Participants should bring basic knowledge of functional programming.
You should have Java 1.6 and Simple Build Tool 0.7+ installed on your machine as well as the ability to open a TAR or ZIP file and a text editor.
You should also download one of the following:
http://tunaforcats.com/chat.tgz
http://tunaforcats.com/chat.zip
These are both self-contained starting points for the tutorial.
To test that you have everything you need, you should run
sbt jetty-run
in the the chat directory that the above archives unpack into.
has been writing commercial software since 1977. He wrote the first real-time spreadsheet and the worlds highest performance spreadsheet engine. Since 1996, David has been using and devising web development tools. As CTO of CMP Media, David oversaw the first large-scale deployment of WebLogic. David was CTO and VPE at Cenzic, a web application security company. David has also developed numerous commercial projects in Ruby on Rails.
In 2007, David founded the Lift Web Framework open source project. Lift is an expressive and elegant framework for writing web applications. Lift stresses the importance of security, maintainability, scalability and performance, while allowing for high levels of developer productivity. Lift open source software licensed under an Apache 2.0 license. David is a consultant in San Francisco and works on Lift-based projects.