Lift (web framework)

<h2 id="design-goals-and-overview">Design goals and overview</h2>
<p>Lift is an expressive framework for writing web applications. It draws upon concepts from peer frameworks such as <a href="/facts/Grails_(framework)/J2QV6vIn">Grails</a>, <a href="/facts/Ruby_on_Rails/aG5P6uon">Ruby on Rails</a>, <a href="/facts/Seaside_(software)/z3DJYHmc">Seaside</a>, <a href="/facts/Apache_Wicket/CMYwKWwh">Wicket</a> and <a href="/facts/Django_(web_framework)/TjPPmvSg">Django</a>. It favors <a href="/facts/Convention_over_configuration/ByfLmJ2v">convention over configuration</a> in the style of Ruby on Rails, although it does not prescribe the <a href="/facts/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller/vRbMXjMm">model–view–controller</a> (MVC) <a href="/facts/Architectural_pattern/GnN0z06K">architectural pattern</a>. 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.
</p><p>As <a href="/facts/Scala_(programming_language)/ebL8o6AK">Scala</a> program code executes within the <a href="/facts/Java_virtual_machine/l9Nzrsun">Java virtual machine</a> (JVM), any existing <a href="/facts/Java_(programming_language)/9ScgFyAL">Java</a> library and <a href="/facts/Web_container/Pv06YKvB">web container</a> can be used in running Lift applications. Lift web applications are thus packaged as <a href="/facts/WAR_file_format_(Sun)/KohLDBAw">WAR</a> files and deployed on any <a href="/facts/Java_Servlet/hf5LQVq1">servlet</a> 2.4 engine (for example, <a href="/facts/Apache_Tomcat/psmVfM2B">Tomcat</a> 5.5.xx, <a href="/facts/Jetty_(web_server)/QI8x2ooX">Jetty</a> 6.0, etc.). Lift programmers may use the standard Scala/Java development toolchain including <a href="/facts/Integrated_development_environment/jbEINSQf">IDEs</a> such as <a href="/facts/Eclipse_(software)/YoqHVjas">Eclipse</a>, <a href="/facts/NetBeans/9kqvIVFG">NetBeans</a> and <a href="/facts/IntelliJ_IDEA/h689XrQz">IDEA</a>. Dynamic web content is authored via templates using standard <a href="/facts/HTML5/HBAxEAr6">HTML5</a> or <a href="/facts/XHTML/6qHnmJSg">XHTML</a> editors. Lift applications also benefit from native support for advanced web development techniques such as <a href="/facts/Comet_(programming)/kLGmy68t">Comet</a> and <a href="/facts/Ajax_(programming)/cS0P0whT">Ajax</a>.
</p><p>The main characteristics of Lift applications are:
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<ul><li>Resistant to common vulnerabilities including many of the <a href="/facts/OWASP/t30EKe8Q">OWASP</a>.</li>
<li>Fast to build, concise and easy to maintain.</li>
<li>High performance and scale in the real world to handle big traffic levels.</li>
<li>Interactive like a desktop application.</li></ul>
<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p>The stable version 1.0 of Lift was released on 26 February 2009 (two years after initiation of the project).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> Lift 2.0 was released in June 2010.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> David Pollak, the original creator of Lift, discussed the release of Lift 2.0 on the popular <a href="/facts/FLOSS_Weekly/z5LB4IWD">FLOSS weekly</a> podcast.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
</p><p>Lift reached five years of continuous development on 26 February 2012.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>
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<li>Free and open-source software portal</li></ul>

<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>

<ul><li>Chen-Becker, Derek; Weir, Tyler; Danciu, Marius (25 May 2009), <a href="https://archive.org/details/definitiveguidet00mari_0/page/200"><i>The Definitive Guide to Lift: A Scala-based Web Framework</i></a> (1st ed.), <a href="/facts/Apress/pxdyEeD3">Apress</a>, pp. <a href="https://archive.org/details/definitiveguidet00mari_0/page/200">200</a>, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-4302-2421-1</li>
<li>Uhlmann, Torsten (January 2013), <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/lift-web-applications/book"><i>Instant Lift Web Applications How-to</i></a> (1st ed.), <a href="/facts/Packt/eT0RTSSK">Packt</a>, p. 96, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1849519786</li>
<li>Dallaway, Richard (June 2013), <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029151.do"><i>Lift Cookbook: Recipes from the Community for Building Web Applications with Scala</i></a> (1st ed.), <a href="/facts/O%27Reilly_Media/Fr3Kv7sm">O'Reilly Media</a>, p. 256, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-4493-6268-3</li>
<li>Garcia Jr., Gilberto T. (September 2013), <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/lift-web-applications/book"><i>Lift Application Development Cookbook</i></a> (1st ed.), <a href="/facts/Packt/eT0RTSSK">Packt</a>, p. 254, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9781849515887</li>
<li>Pollak, David, <a href="http://simply.liftweb.net/"><i>Simply Lift</i></a> (Online Early Access ed.)</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://liftweb.net/">Official website</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.openhub.net/p/liftweb">Lift</a> at <a href="/facts/Open_Hub/D7edguPq">Open Hub</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/astamuse/asta4d">Asta4D: Lift inspired Java port</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"David Pollak on lift and Scala". InfoQ. Retrieved 8 August 2015. <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/03/liftweb" target="_blank">http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/03/liftweb</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>"Foursquare move to Scala/Lift". Retrieved 8 August 2015. <a href="http://www.scala-lang.org/node/5130" target="_blank">http://www.scala-lang.org/node/5130</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Home". Archived from the original on 11 December 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2015. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101211123157/http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?%2Farchives%2F92-Lift-1.0-is-available.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20101211123157/http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?%2Farchives%2F92-Lift-1.0-is-available.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"Lift :: 2.0 GA". Retrieved 8 August 2015. <a href="http://liftweb.net/20_ga" target="_blank">http://liftweb.net/20_ga</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>"FLOSS Weekly 125". TWiT.tv. Retrieved 8 August 2015. <a href="http://twit.tv/floss125" target="_blank">http://twit.tv/floss125</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>"Lift :: Happy 5th Birthday". Retrieved 8 August 2015. <a href="http://liftweb.net/5th_anniversary" target="_blank">http://liftweb.net/5th_anniversary</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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