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Lift in Action: The Simply Functional Web Framework for Scala
By: Timothy Perrett
Publisher: Manning Publications
Pub. Date: November 24, 2011
Print ISBN-10: 1-935182-80-3
Print ISBN-13: 978-1-935182-80-1
Pages in Print Edition: 424
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Overview
Summary Lift in Action is a step-by-step exploration of the Lift framework. It moves through the subject quickly using carefully crafted, well-explained examples that make you comfortable from the start. This book is written for developers who are new to both Scala and Lift.About the Technology Lift is a Scala-based web framework designed for extremely interactive and engaging web applications. It's highly scalable, production-ready, and will run in any servlet container. And Lift's convention-over-configuration approach lets you avoid needless work. About this Book Lift in Action is a step-by-step exploration of the Lift framework. It moves through the subject quickly using carefully crafted, well-explained examples that make you comfortable from the start. You'll follow an entertaining Travel Auction application that covers the core concepts and shows up architectural and development strategies. Handy appendixes offer a Scala crash course and guidance for setting up a good coding environment. This book is written for developers who are new to both Scala and Lift and covers just enough Scala to get you started. What's Inside
Complete coverage of the Lift framework
Security, maintainability, and performance
Integration and scaling
Covers Lift 2.x
PART 1 GETTING STARTED
Introducing Lift
Hello Lift
PART 2 APPLICATION TUTORIAL
The auction application
Customers, auctions, and bidding
Shopping basket and checkout
PART 3 LIFT IN DETAIL
Common tasks with Lift WebKit
SiteMap and access control
HTTP in Lift
AJAX, wiring, and Comet
Persistence with Mapper
Persistence with Record
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"If only it worked" - by hcvst on 27-MAR-2012
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The examples just don't work. Even whilst typing I can see that they are likely to fail. Occasionally imports are missing or they just don't relate to the text. The lift in detail section is better but the introductory tutorial left me utterly confused. It's a real shame because I'd really like to learn Lift but the documentation is terrible - this book is not much better.
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"Not Recommended" - by Anonymous on 01-APR-2012
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This book has several issues:
Code and concepts are either presented without explanation or with extraordinarily unclear explanations.
Examples are not presented incrementally; you typically have to look at the finished example from the book's website and figure out how to get to that point on your own.
The finished example code from the site does not work.
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