Lift and why it rocks!

The Lift web framework brought a new paradigm on how to develop web applications. The presentation will show how to leverage Lift to develop secure, comet, multithreaded and REST web applications.

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1. Lift rocks! Joao Da Silva @imjsilva Sep 25, 2012 Thursday, 11 October 2012
2. Lift • Founded in 2007 by David Pollack • First successful Scala web framework • Very robust Thursday, 11 October 2012
3. Why Lift ? • Secure • Scalable • With batteries included Thursday, 11 October 2012
4. Secure • Functional and Type Safe page generation • Safeguards against many OWASP Top 10 vunerabilities Thursday, 11 October 2012
5. Scalable • Stateful state is on the JVM • No data serialization overhead • Session Affinity for load balancing Thursday, 11 October 2012
6. Batteries Included • Sensible defaults • MVC if you want • Stateless if and when desired • Actors • Comet • Functional Thursday, 11 October 2012
7. Core Concepts • Templates • GUID • SiteMap Thursday, 11 October 2012
8. Templates • Type Safe NodeSeq => NodeSeq • Transformations • Valid XHTML/HTML5 • Designer Friendly Thursday, 11 October 2012
9. SiteMap • List of HTML Pages • Access Control • Navigation (Menus, submenus, grouped menu items, breadcrums) Thursday, 11 October 2012
10. Other Sweets • Lazy Load • Rest and Async Rest • Awesome JSON support out of the box • Assets Timestamped • Box + tryo • Full flexibility at any part of the framework Thursday, 11 October 2012
11. Code Thursday, 11 October 2012
12. Q & A Thursday, 11 October 2012