[Lift] Re: lift plugins/extensibility?

2009-04-14 Thread David Pollak
Lift doesn't have a formal plugin definition because none is necessary. In order to add modules to your application, you specify the modules in your Maven pom file (the only XML you'll have to touch to use Lift.) This makes sure that the module is available to your app. Next, you'll put one or

[Lift] Re: lift plugins/extensibility?

2009-04-14 Thread Mick Delaney
i was just evaluating lift in general in the extensibility area. lets say for example u wanted to drop in openid authentication or something. i guess most of this is more around scala traits etc, rather than lift. what about something like dropping in a pluggable CMS. in rails for example

[Lift] Re: lift plugins/extensibility?

2009-04-14 Thread Mick Delaney
i was evaluating lift versus rails plugins/gems mainly. for example, lets say i want to drop in openid authentication or something. or if i wanted to make a class versionable (although that's scala really not lift). what about a pluggable CMS, e.g. comatose or browsercms in rails, in djanjo for

[Lift] Re: lift plugins/extensibility?

2009-04-14 Thread Mick Delaney
i was evaluating lift versus rails plugins/gems mainly. for example, lets say i want to drop in openid authentication or something. or if i wanted to make a class versionable (although that's scala really not lift). what about a pluggable CMS, e.g. comatose or browsercms in rails, in djanjo for

[Lift] Re: lift plugins/extensibility?

2009-04-14 Thread Mick Delaney
i was evaluating lift versus rails plugins/gems mainly. for example, lets say i want to drop in openid authentication or something. or if i wanted to make a class versionable (although that's scala really not lift). what about a pluggable CMS, e.g. comatose or browsercms in rails, in djanjo for

[Lift] re: lift plugins/extensibility?

2009-04-14 Thread Mick Delaney
i cant seem to reply to my previous post for some reason :-( so i'll reply here: i was evaluating lift versus rails plugins/gems mainly. for example, lets say i want to drop in openid authentication or something. or if i wanted to make a class versionable (although that's scala really not lift).

[Lift] Re: lift plugins/extensibility?

2009-04-14 Thread Mick Delaney
sorry guys. i didnt realise it was moderated (doh!!). it's been almost 5 years since i did any java at all but i know how JAR's work and i've looked into maven. i think i'll probably just go and create a sample app fully, i was going to create a personal task manager website in lift so perhaps

[Lift] Re: lift plugins/extensibility?

2009-04-14 Thread TylerWeir
Btw, is there a good CMS module??? Not currently. I would *love* to rewrite Wordpress+WordpressMU +Buddypress. I have been talking about it for more than a year though. :( On Apr 14, 11:23 am, Mick Delaney mickdela...@gmail.com wrote: sorry guys. i didnt realise it was moderated (doh!!).

[Lift] Re: lift plugins/extensibility?

2009-04-14 Thread David Pollak
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Mick Delaney mickdela...@gmail.com wrote: sorry guys. i didnt realise it was moderated (doh!!). Yeah... we are now getting about 10 spam messages a day, so new members are moderated. it's been almost 5 years since i did any java at all but i know how

[Lift] Re: lift plugins/extensibility?

2009-04-14 Thread marius d.
Perhaps lift-widgets project will shed some light for you. Widgets are in many respects self contained in terms of dependencies and you just use the exposed functions in your snippets. Br's, Marius On Apr 14, 3:44 pm, Mick Delaney mickdela...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i'm currently having a look

[Lift] Re: lift plugins/extensibility?

2009-04-14 Thread Viktor Klang
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:53 PM, TylerWeir tyler.w...@gmail.com wrote: Btw, is there a good CMS module??? Not currently. I would *love* to rewrite Wordpress+WordpressMU +Buddypress. I have been talking about it for more than a year though. :( I've been gnawing on this idea for a while