Lift 2.2

January 5, 2011

Lift features include:

• Community... the Lift community is 2,400 members strong, super-active and always there to help with questions
• Best Comet (server-push) support that allows the creation of dynamic application such as Novell Vibe
• Super simple Ajax for creating highly interactive web applications without worrying about HTTP plumbing
• Secure by default... Lift apps are resistant to the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities including XSS, XSRF, and parameter tampering
• Concise and Maintainable... Lift apps typically contain fewer lines of code than corresponding Rails apps, yet are type safe so that many errors are flagged by the compiler
• Scalable... Lift apps scale to millions of users across many servers, yet are highly efficient for single-box implementations
• Compatible... Lift apps can take advantage of any Java library as well as the growing collection of Scala libraries

Lift 2.2 improvements include:

• HTML5 Support: Lift supports parsing HTML5 input files and rendering HTML5 to the browser in addition to Lift’s XHTML support
• Wiring: Spreadsheets meet web application yielding an automatic mechanism for updating dependent elements on a page, making it even easier to build dynamic apps with Lift
• Wizard and Screen Improvements: Build complex screens more easily with new helper methods for creating form elements and improved life-cycle callbacks
• CSS Selector Transforms Improvements: including appending attributes, multiple selectors applying to a single element, and element lifting
• Support for migratory sessions: ContainerVars provide type-safe, guaranteed serializable session variables that can migrate across application servers in a cluster
• Improved i18n: including per-page localization strings and localization strings and HTML stored in templates rather than Java resource files which makes editing much easier
• Security Improvements: including creation of new sessions on login
• MongoDB Improvements: performance improvements as well as new features
• Support for Scala 2.8.1 as well as 2.8.0 and 2.7.7
• ProtoUser support for Record: Lift’s ProtoUser and CRUDify can be used on Record-based persistence classes as well as Mapper-based persistence classes
• Squeryl integration improvements: Lift is updated to use the latest version of Squeryl
• Designer-friendly templates
• Stateless renderingincluding the HTML pipeline
• Support for MVC-style development

Lift-powered sites include:

• Foursquare: the multi-million user location based service that services millions of check-ins a day on their Lift-powered system
• Novell Vibe: enterprise collaboration software platform based on Google Wave
• Innovation Games: The fun way to do serious business — seriously
• Xerox/XMPie: the leading provider of software for cross-media, variable data one-to-one marketing
• Exchango: The easy and convenient way to give and get free stuff.
• Snapsort: Compare and decide on cameras
• No Fouls: Find pickup basketball games