This video reports decisions and experiences in migrating a Java application to Lift/Scala. The topics covered are: The Mapper OR-Mapping framework; Problems in separating user interface from business logic; Comparison with JPA and Hibernate; How to get quickly an application without scaffolding; Configuring Lift by the LiftRules and S objects; The abundance of singleton objects in Lift and its relation to dependency injection; How to do transaction processing with Lift/Mapper; How to do central, and local exception reporting with Lift; How to do URL rewriting.
