I'm seriously considering Lift for a new project. I know what the benefits of Scala and Lift are (that's why I'm seriously considering this as a route forwards :-) What I'm wondering is whether there are any lurking nasties that I should be aware of (so that I can avoid learning about them the hard way).
Some background: Until recently I was CTO of Texperts, a UK startup. We moved to using Ruby on Rails shortly after version 1.0 was released (i.e. when it was at just about the same level of maturity as Lift is now). Our experience was mostly very good - the major issues we had were deployment problems arising from the fact that Ruby's threads aren't really threads. I'm now looking at a new project, a significant chunk of which will be a webservice likely to be installed within a mobile network operator's infrastructure. That fact is a powerful argument for writing it in Java (MNOs all know how to run big Java app servers) but the very thought of being stuck writing Java for the foreseeable future makes me break out in hives :-) So I'm considering Scala and Lift. In particular, I'm considering the tradeoffs of Lift versus something like Spring+Scala. I'm not too worried about problems that might bite us while we're developing the service. I hope that we're smart enough, and the Lift community is helpful enough, that we should be able to work our way through those kinds of problem (although a heads-up would still be welcome). What I *am* worried about are problems that might bite us when we come to install the service at an MNO. Having said "don't worry - it'll run on your app server just fine", is there anything that might prove problematic if we choose Lift? Is there anything we can do ahead of time to head this kind of problem off at the pass? How should we test to minimise the chance of problems? Would choosing Spring+Scala decrease any of these risks? Very many thanks in advance for any help or advice you can offer, paul.butcher->msgCount++ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=.
