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We are thinking on moving our Rest API Server (it is inside the web service, on Symfony PHP) to Scala for several reasons: speed, no overhead, less CPU, less code, scalability, etc. I didn't know Scala until several days ago but I've been enjoying what I've been learning these days with the Scala book and all the blog posts and questions (it's not so ugly!) I have the following options: build the Rest API Server from scratch use a tiny Scala web framework like Scalatra use Lift Some things that I will have to use: HTTP requests, JSON output, MySQL (data), OAuth, Memcache (cache), Logs, File

I am attempting to use JSON to send data between the browser and my app. I am attempting to use Lift 1.0 to create and parse JSON strings, but for some reason I am unable to parse the JSON I just constructed: scala>import scala.util.parsing.json.JSON._ import scala.util.parsing.json.JSON._ scala> import net.liftweb.http.js._ import net.liftweb.http.js._ scala> import net.liftweb.http.js.JE._ import net.liftweb.http.js.JE._ scala> val json = JsObj(("foo", 4), ("bar", "baz")).toJsCmd json: String = {'foo': 4, 'bar': 'baz'} scala> parseFull(json) res3: Option[Any] = None How do I programmatically

I know this question is a bit open but I have been looking at Scala/Lift as an alternative to Java/Spring and I wonder what are the real advantages that Scala/Lift has over it. From my perspective and experience, Java Annotations and Spring really minimizes the amount of coding that you have to do for an application. Does Scala/Lift improve upon that? Let's assume we're equally comfortable in Scala and Java, and ignore the (huge) language differences except as they pertain to Spring or Lift. Spring and Lift are almost diametrically opposed in terms of maturity and goals. Spring is about five