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Preface

1.  Using JRuby on Rails With Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server

2.  Developing Grails Applications

3.  Jython on Django

4.  Scala and Lift

Using Scala and Lift

5.  PHP

Chapter 4

Scala and Lift

Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. It is also fully interoperable with Java. For details, see http://www.scala-lang.org/.

Lift is an expressive and elegant framework for writing web applications using Scala. Lift stresses the importance of security, maintainability, scalability, and performance, while allowing for high levels of developer productivity. For details, see http://liftweb.net/.

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