News
Lift 1.0 Released!
2009/02/26 - After months of development, we're proud to announce the release of Lift 1.0.
Jump right in!
Ramp up quickly with our Getting Started Guide
Lift Book
New! If you're looking for a deeper dive, have a look at the The Definitive guide to Lift book from APress.
The LyX source to the book is available in the Lift Book repository on GitHub, and will continue to be updated. The mailing list (and some PDF downloads) are available at the Lift Book Google Group page.
Special Thanks
Lift performance and tuning is courtesy of YourKit.
What is Lift?
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.
Lift borrows from the best of existing frameworks, providing
- Seaside's highly granular sessions and security
- Rails fast flash-to-bang
- Django's "more than just CRUD is included"
- Wicket's designer-friendly templating style (see Lift View First)
And because Lift applications are written in Scala, an elegant new JVM language, you can still use your favorite Java libraries and deploy to your favorite Servlet Container. Use the code you've already written and deploy to the container you've already configured!
What is Scala?
Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. It is also fully interoperable with Java.
Meet the Founder
David Pollak
David Pollak 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.