On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:13 PM, __kaveh__ <kaveh.shahbaz...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Agreed; things like Comet Style request processing; yet Lift model for > separating concerns and it's powerful template system can really makes > a complete web application ecosystem on GAE. > The all of the "standard" parts of Lift work on GAE except Comet and Mapper. Comet doesn't work because of the ban in GAE of creating threads (Actors) and Mapper doesn't work because there's no JDBC source on GAE. With that being said, I personally think GAE is the worst of all possible worlds. GAE has a severely limited run-time (the idea of not being able to have asynchronous messages is a huge limitation). BigTable is good for a limited number of things, but even the most trivial apps (e.g., yet another Twitter Clone) is going to require a relational database or some other model beyond what BigTable offers. GAE nominally scales well, but if you're moving to Twitter-like traffic, you're not going to want to be tied to Google's infrastructure... it's just too scaring from a business perspective. For $10/mo, you can rent a slice at SliceHost or prgmr.com that will run a nice app and allow it to scale to hundreds or maybe thousands of users. So, if you have an actual need for Lift on GAE for an actual production site and Lift is not offering a particular something you need, please tell us about it and we'll see about scheduling a fix. Thanks, David > > On Jan 14, 1:51 am, Randinn <rand...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The problem as far as I know is the GAE sandboxing inhibits most of > > what makes lift, lift. > > > > On Jan 14, 8:56 am, __kaveh__ <kaveh.shahbaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Introduction: I apologize in advanced for I am naive about Scala, Lift > > > and elegant design decisions in Lift. I am a C#/ASP.NET/Windows > > > Application developer. I played with Scala and it was the C# I was > > > looking for! My job is on .NET platform. But for enjoying something > > > (and maybe put into real use later) Scala and Lift are really nice > > > choices (IMHO). > > > > > Could there be an official GAE (Google App Engine) version of Lift? > > > > > It appears that - for some reason I can not figure out; one of them > > > for sure is elegance - Lift and Scala are attracting to those who want > > > to use GAE/J. This can be a winning/dominated playground for both of > > > them (even if we put aside concurrency features in GRE) for those who > > > want to use GRE/J. > > > > > Regards > > -- > 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<liftweb%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Surf the harmonics--
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