ADT Covers David Pollak, Lift, “Buy a Feature”
Application Development Trends (ADT) posted this article about Lift, its creator David Pollak, and “Buy a Feature Online”...
Open Source Project Gives Java Devs a ‘Lift’
By John K. Waters, 3/4/2009
“Some might question whether there’s a need for another Web application framework following the recent consolidation of the upstart Merb project with the Rails 3 effort, but the creators of the open-source Lift Framework project aren’t
letting that stand in their way. They have released the first version under the Apache 2.0 software license as it celebrates its second anniversary this week…
“The Lift Framework itself was created by David Pollak, former chief technology officer at Web application security firm Cenzic. A longtime developer with numerous commercial projects in Ruby on Rails under his belt, Pollak was dissatisfied with the current crop of Web application frameworks, and the recent consolidation of Merb with Rails only decreased the options for developers.
“This small band of devoted developers has so far put approximately 20 applications of Lift into commercial production….
Among those is the intriguing “Buy a Feature,” a real-time, interactive, serious game designed to allow product managers “to learn from their customers through play.” The application runs in a browser without add-ins, and was built in less than one man-year using Lift and the Scala programming language, according to its co-creators, Pollak and Dan O’Leary, chief technology officer of Enthiosys, a Mountain View, Calif.-based software management consulting and training firm. When deployed on a standard J2EE app server and a dual-core AMD Opteron-based system, the “game” supports 2,000 simultaneous players.”
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