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| Original author(s) | David Pollak[1] |
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| Developer(s) | Lift Team |
| Initial release | 2007 |
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| Written in | Scala |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Web framework |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | liftweb |
Lift is afree and open-sourceweb framework that is designed for theScala programming language. It was originally created byDavid Pollak who was dissatisfied with certain aspects of theRuby on Rails framework.[3] Lift was launched as anopen source project on 26 February 2007 under theApache License 2.0. A commercially popular web platform often cited as being developed using Lift isFoursquare.[4]
Lift is an expressive framework for writing web applications. It draws upon concepts from peer frameworks such asGrails,Ruby on Rails,Seaside,Wicket andDjango. It favorsconvention over configuration in the style of Ruby on Rails, although it does not prescribe themodel–view–controller (MVC)architectural pattern. Rather, Lift is chiefly modeled upon the so-called "View First" (designer friendly) approach to web page development inspired by the Wicket framework. Lift is also designed to be a high-performance, scalable web framework by leveraging Scala actors to support more concurrent requests than is possible with a thread-per-request server.
AsScala program code executes within theJava virtual machine (JVM), any existingJava library andweb container can be used in running Lift applications. Lift web applications are thus packaged asWAR files and deployed on anyservlet 2.4 engine (for example,Tomcat 5.5.xx,Jetty 6.0, etc.). Lift programmers may use the standard Scala/Java development toolchain includingIDEs such asEclipse,NetBeans andIDEA. Dynamic web content is authored via templates using standardHTML5 orXHTML editors. Lift applications also benefit from native support for advanced web development techniques such asComet andAjax.
The main characteristics of Lift applications are:
The stable version 1.0 of Lift was released on 26 February 2009 (two years after initiation of the project).[5] Lift 2.0 was released in June 2010.[6] David Pollak, the original creator of Lift, discussed the release of Lift 2.0 on the popularFLOSS weekly podcast.[7]
Lift reached five years of continuous development on 26 February 2012.[8]
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