Taking Off
Get started with Lift. Build your first interactive Lift-powered app.
Flying in Formation
Join the warm, welcoming Lift community, ask questions, suggest features, have fun!
Flying Commercial
Get professional Lift support and consulting from the Lift committers.
Team
Learn more about the people, who put their efforts into developing the Lift framework.
What is Lift?
Lift is the most powerful, most secure web framework available today. There are Seven Things that distinguish Lift from other web frameworks.
- Lift applications are:
- Secure -- Lift apps are resistant to common vulnerabilities including many of the OWASP Top 10
- Developer centric -- Lift apps are fast to build, concise and easy to maintain
- Designer friendly -- Lift apps can be developed in a totally designer friendly way
- Scalable -- Lift apps are high performance and scale in the real world to handle insane traffic levels
- Modular -- Lift apps can benefit from, easy to integrate, pre built modules
- Interactive like a desktop app -- Lift's Comet support is unparalled and Lift's ajax support is super-easy and very secure
Read an overview of how Lift achieves these important goals.
Lift open source software licensed under an Apache 2.0 license.
Because Lift applications are written in Scala, an elegant JVM language, you can still use your favorite Java libraries and deploy to your favorite Servlet Container and app server. Use the code you've already written and deploy to the container you've already configured!
Latest Happenings
Lift 2.5-RC6 Ships!
2013/05/12 The Lift team is proud to announce version 2.5-RC6 of Lift.
Lift 2.5-RC5 Ships!
2013/04/17 The Lift team is proud to announce version 2.5-RC5 of Lift.
Lift 2.5-RC3 Ships!
2013/04/03 The Lift team is proud to announce version 2.5-RC3 of Lift.
Lift 2.5-RC2 Ships!
2013/03/08 The Lift team is proud to announce version 2.5-RC2 of Lift.
Lift 2.5-RC1 Ships!
2013/02/22 The Lift team is proud to announce version 2.5-RC1 of Lift.
Lift 2.5-M4 Ships!
2013/01/12 The Lift team is proud to announce version 2.5-M4 of Lift.
Lift 2.5-M3 Ships!
2012/11/12 The Lift team is proud to announce version 2.5-M3 of Lift.
Lift 2.5-M2 Ships!
2012/10/19 The Lift team is proud to announce version 2.5-M2 of Lift.
Lift 2.5-M1 Ships!
2012/9/11 The Lift team is proud to announce version 2.5-M1 of Lift.
David Pollak's Lift Basics
In this workshop you will learn how to create dynamic, interactive, secure web sites using Lift. Courses are being held at SkillsMatter in London, UK, on December 3rd 2012.
Lift Books
Entwicklung von Web-Applikationen mit Lift und Scala by Thomas Fiedler and Christoph Knabe.
Simply Lift, by David Pollak is an open source book, available for free in both PDF and HTML versions at http://simply.liftweb.net/.
Exploring Lift, by Derek Chen-Becker, Tyler Weir, and Marius Danciu is an open source book, available for free in both PDF and HTML versions at http://exploring.liftweb.net/.
Lift In Action by Tim Perrett is available in print and eBook format.
Lift Cookbook A community question and answers book, free at cookbook.liftweb.net
Lift Web Applications How-to by Torsten Uhlmann is available in print and eBook format.