Lift Application Development Cookbook

If you want the ultimate in security for your web applications you need to know the Lift framework. This book lets you dive straight into a whole range of features and techniques thanks to its 50+ practical recipes.

Key Features

• Lift made easy with step-by-steps recipes written by a developer for developers
• Practical examples covering topics from basic to advanced levels
• Learn to use Schemifier to automatically create tables and columns
• Understand how to integrate Lift with other technologies and social media
• Filled with task-based recipes to create web applications in a very secure manner

Book Description

What you will learn

• Start a new web application using Lift
• Manage and validate forms to handle data submitted by users
• Build an application to create and maintain client data by using a REST interface
• Use Mapper, an ORM system for relational databases, included with Lift
• Use Liquibase to manage database changes incrementally
• Integrate Lift and Akka
• Schedule jobs using Quartz
• Integrate your application with JMS queues
• Use IoC frameworks such as Google Guice and Spring
• Use social media to log in users
• Fetch user data from social media

Who this book is for

This book is for developers who have at least some basic knowledge about Scala and who are looking for a functional, secure, and modern web framework. Prior experience with HTML and JavaScript is assumed.