It would be really good for us as a team to know what it is you *dont* get? Is it conceptual? code? If we can understand what is daunting for newbies that would really be helpful.
Cheers, Tim On Dec 25, 2:51 pm, greekscala <hellectro...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <vill...@gmail.com> 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 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=en.
