Getting Real: Lift, the Scala web framework

Lift is an expressive, elegant framework for writing Web applications. It stresses the importance of security, scalability, and performance while enabling high levels of developer productivity. Lift applications, written in Scala and deployed as WAR files offer very high performance and are being deployed in organizations as diverse as web 2.0 start-ups, right up to companies such as SAP. In this session, project committer Timothy Perrett, gives an overview of Lift and demonstrates its advantages for building rich Internet applications.