Scala and Lift Functional Recipes for the Web

Author

Ghosh, Debasish ; Vinoski, Steve

Volume

13

Issue

3

fYear

2009

Firstpage

88

Lastpage

92

Abstract

Today, there´s significant interest in functional languages and frameworks that fit the Web better than imperative languages. We explore Scala, an OO-functional language on the Java virtual machine, and Lift, a framework implemented on Scala´s functional features. The Scala language offers functional programming features and asynchronous message-passing concurrency alongside a statically typed model. Lift exploits this model to offer secure, higher-level abstractions to Web developers.

Keywords

Internet; Java; concurrency control; functional languages; functional programming; message passing; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; virtual machines; Java virtual machine; Lift; Scala; World Wide Web; asynchronous message-passing concurrency; higher-level abstractions; object-oriented-functional language; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Data structures; Data visualization; Domain specific languages; Functional programming; Libraries; Pattern matching; Standards development; Yarn; Lift; Scala; actor; closure; functional Web; functional language; pattern match;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2009.68

Filename

4907692