How quick is webdev with Lift?

[Alex Siman]

How quick is webdev with Lift? Is your Lift dev-cycle of webapp is the
same as with classic Java? I mean these steps:

1) code
2) compile
3) deploy
4) find error
...
n-2) re-compile
n-1) re-deploy
...

Such as Scala is compilable lang, every change made into the snippets
requires "re-compile" and "re-deploy". This slows down development.

Are you using JRebel (formerly JavaRebel)? I have used this lib for
Java projects and it worked fine.

Are there any other tips to speed up webdev on JVM-Scala-Lift compared
to JVM-Java-XXX?

[harryh]

I use JRebel and SBT (http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/) and
very rarely have to restart my server when doing development. It's a
very quick dev-cycle. No big tips really. I save the code and reload
the page and see the results of my work.

-harryh

[Alex Siman]

Thanx fro SBT. I have to look at this tool.

[CodeSlave9000]

Even without JRebel the cycle isn't that bad, especially if you don't
need to alter Snippets. Often I'm only tweaking the xhtml, in which
case I don't even have to restart the server.
Chris