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Is there a way to use the lift-json library's JObject class to act like a Map? For example: val json = """ { "_id" : { "$oid" : "4ca63596ae65a71dd376938e"} , "foo" : "bar" , "size" : 5} """ val record = JsonParser.parse(json) record: net.liftweb.json.JsonAST.JValue = JObject(List(JField(_id,JObject(List(JField($oid,JString(4ca63596ae65a71dd376938e))))), JField(foo,JString(bar)), JField(size,JInt(5)))) </code> I would have expected record("foo") to return "bar" I noticed a values function and it prints out a Map but the actual object is a JValue.this.Values? scala> record.values res43: record

Lift/Scala is getting a lot of attention lately. Having worked with Grails in the past (and finding it quite handy BTW), I'd like to know if there's anyone who has tried both and what's his/her opinion about them. Is one of them better suited for one kind of scenarios whereas the other is better for other kind, or they compete shoulder to shoulder to solve the same problem ? If you're building a CRUD app and you're comfortable with Grails, then stick with it. If any of the following things are priorities for you, then Lift is going to be better: Security -- Lift is more secure than Grails

I want to create a menu that looks like: HOME | FOO | BAR | ABOUT | CONTACT How might I go about doing this? Here is what I have tried: <lift:Menu.builder ul:class="menu" li_item:class="current" /> and ul.menu li { display: inline; list-style-type: none; text-transform: uppercase; border-right: 1px solid white; padding-right: 5px; } li.current span { background: white; color: black; padding: 5px 5px 3px 5px; font-size: 11px; } li.current a, a:visited, a:link { color: white; padding: 5px 5px 3px 5px; font-size: 11px; } This gets close, but it doesn't look quite right. Also you end up with an

I am trying to use Spring with Scala. I know Autowired works with Scala class, but I am using a web-framework that requires an object and I want to inject a dao into it. I wonder how to do this? Sorry, I am quite new to Scala, thanks in advance. @Service object UserRest extends RestHelper { @Autowired @BeanProperty val userRepository: UserRepository = null; ..... } <beans> ..... <bean id="userRest" class="com.abc.rest.UserRest" > <!--- this is my attempt to manually wire it ---> <property name="userRepository" ref="userRepository"/> </bean> </beans> axtavt Basically, you have two problems:

I am about to start a project for a web application that should run on a Tomcat server. I have decided to go for Scala - the other alternative where I work being Groovy - essentially for type safety. I am now faced with the task of choosing the right tools for the job. The project I will need to develop will be accessed only through a JSON API. It will interact both with its own database and with two external services, which expose respectively a JSON and XML API. I will also need to be able to schedule periodic jobs where my application will execute various synchronization tasks with these