This sounds very exciting David, please ensure to keep us posted on any developments.
This notion of Q's - is this the method by which actors will be distributed (managed via zookeeper, i would assume)? Any reference materials you can point me to further whet my appetite? On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 00:19 -0700, David Pollak wrote: > Folks, > > At the end of the Scala Lift Off, after I finished my third beer, > Martin Odersky came over to me and asked, "so, what's the future of > Lift?" > > I gave a hand-waving answer about the features for 1.1. But Martin is > not a hand-waving kind of guy and I think I owe him and the other > folks in the Scala and Lift communities more. > > There's a lot more that's necessary for web app development than Lift, > an abstraction to the HTTP request/response cycle, can provide. > > Over the last couple of years, I've been noticing trends in web > development, in the needs of my various consulting gigs, and in some > other projects. It's clear to me that it's time for a unified data > and data management model that goes beyond OR mapping and that is > scalably transactional. I've put together a model that looks to the > developer like STM but is backed with ZooKeeper and Cassandra. I've > blogged about it at > http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/94-Lift,-Goat-Rodeo-and-Such.html > > Just as my web framework manifesto was the genesis of what has become > Lift, I hope that my notions and ramblings in this blog post will > become concrete, usable code over the next few months and a solid > platform for building the next generation of web systems over the next > few years... all built with Scala at their core. > > Thanks, > > David > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net > Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp > Git some: http://github.com/dpp > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@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=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
