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Lift web applications are packaged as WAR files and deployed on any Servlet 2.4 engine (e.g., Tomcat 5.5.xx, Jetty 6.0, etc.) Lift programmers may use standard Scala/Java development environments such as Eclipse, NetBeans and IDEA. Dynamic web content is authored via templates using standard XHTML editors. Lift applications benefit from native support for advanced web development techniques such as Comet and Ajax. The technical environment is supported by the performance and portability of the JVM, the Java development toolchain, and the extensive collection of available Java libraries. Lift was launched as an open source project on February 26, 2007 and reached version 1.0 exactly two years later. Lift 2.0 was released in June 2010. David Pollack, the original creator of Lift, has discussed the release of Lift 2.0 on the popular FLOSS weekly podcast. Foursquare is among sites that now run on Lift. |