I'd also like to say you should pick a technology that meets your goals. Lift/Grails/Django/Rails/Seam/JSF/Spring/Struts (etc..) have their own quirks and if you try to deviate too far from the "paradigm", you'll run into them quickly.
For me, (so far) Lift is really amazing at doing quick ajaxy websites that have multiple components on each page. If you're programming one of these style websites, you start to realize the power right away (big win with the CometActors). I would argue if your application needs to be developed quickly, and you want to do *anything* with Comet, Lift is the only way to go. It took me a day to read enough documentation and play around before I had a working Comet-based widget in my pages. It would have taken (much) less time if I hadn't been trying to communicate with EJBs on my app server. Anyway, after coming from Grails, Spring and raw Servlets + ExtJS, I'd like to say this: "Make sure your framework/tools help you do your work, and that can only be determined by you!" Web frameworks are not interchangeable. Find one that suits your needs. Lift provides a new perspective and a lot of power, but if you deviate from its design too far you will run into quirks (like any other framework). I think lift has a good "stretch" factor, which is another reason why I've chosen it for my current assignment. Anyway, hope that helps from someone who's just started using Lift for production code. -Josh On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Tim Perrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +1 Viktor. In troubled economic times such as these, its in the > business interest to run as efficiently as possible - in short, more > productive programmers... what you said is bang on. > > Cheers, Tim > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
