Jeppe gave a great answer. Just to reinforce that Lift's webkit is totally agnostic to the data being presented. As long as that data can be materialized as instances of objects in the JVM, you can use Lift.
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Jeppe Nejsum Madsen <je...@ingolfs.dk>wrote: > mortench <morte...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi All, > > > > [...] > > > How suited would Lift be for this scenario or to be more precise: > > a) Is a lift web app as fast to startup as a normal jave jsp/servlet > > app ? > > Depends mostly on your own code. If you have an empty Boot, startup is < > 1s. > > > b) Can lift be used without a database and can the relate code such as > > the OR mapped be omitted ? > > Yes > > > c) Any special considerations needed when starting and stopping an > > embedded lift web app ? > > Dunno :-) > > > d) What does lift require of the java web server ? I.e. can some of > > the more lightweight java web servers be used that might not support > > the full servlet/jsp specifications such as the embedded HTTP server > > in Java 6, Winstone, Grizzly etc.? ... What (light) java webservers > > are lift known to work with ? > > You need a recent servlet implementation. Lift needs Servlet 2.5 or higher. > JSP is not needed. I'm using > Jetty although not embedded, but Jetty seems like it should easily be > embedded. During development, I launch a small Scala app that starts > jetty (the RunWebApp class generated by the Lift archetype) > > > e) What would the best way for the lift web app to communicate with > > the backend code of the java app ? By just calling into the existing > > java code (some integration/classloader issues here?) or more loosely > > by calling REST WS Api exposed by the Java code ? > > Not sure what you envision here, but REST and loosely coupled should > work :-) > Given that Scala works perfectly calling Java code, I'd go with calling your Java classes directly. > > > f) I am using ANT and not maven to develop the java app. Will be able > > to make Lift work with ANT so I use the same build tool for > > everything? > > Yes, but you're probably on your own > > > g) What version of lift should I use ? In particular does Lift 2.0 > > change anything for my scenario ? > > You should use the latest 2.0-SNAPSHOT or milestone (M3 is just around > the corner) > > /Jeppe > > -- > 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 -- 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.
