Hello, I would like to hear more about, how you "get" lift. I am new to lift too and trying to get a better and clearer viewpoint.
Maybe it can help others to. If you can summarize it in a few sentences. This would be really great. with best regards On 25 Dez., 01:05, Erkki Lindpere <[email protected]> wrote: > It took me a long time to "get" lift. For about a year I looked at > examples from time to time and tried out some basic stuff, but it just > didn't click. I found the structure to be too messy. I still do > actually. It seems that the documentation is also not well structured > enough for getting started and I had to look at examples and Lift's > source to understand how things work (thanks for putting sources in > the Maven repo BTW, I wish everyone would do that). > > After experimenting with Lift for about two days I think I get the > basic idea and I've come to a better understanding about lift's > structure by looking at the sources, I can now ignore the parts I > don't like (Mapper being one, I use JPA instead) and use the parts > that I do. > > The way the X(HT)ML processing, type-safe JavaScript/jQuery, Ajax and > Comet work is just brilliant! > > PS. I'm working (on my spare time for now) on an Ajax & Comet heavy > application that will hopefully also have a lot of runtime > customization ability through OSGi. I haven't gotten to the OSGi part > yet, because there's the hurdle of OSGifying all the jars I use and I > want to get a good understanding of Lift before I start making things > dynamic. But do you have any recommendations for OSGi framework/web > container combinations to use with Lift? I have tried SpringSource > dmServer (with the SpringSource tooling), but I don't like it much... > Maybe plain Equinox + Jetty with the ScalaModules library would be a > good combo? -- 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.
