Kafka Actors for Lift 0.1.0

We are pleased to announce the first release of Kafka Actors for Lift.

This library allows you to integrate Lift's actor system with Apache Kafka to implement message durability, work distribution, and other use cases quickly and easily from within your Lift application. This project is still in its early stages. It's API and feature set have not yet stabilized, but we're optimistic about the value this could provide Lift developers even in this early state.

Kafka Actors for Lift is built on two battle-tested libraries that are components of the larger Lift Framework:

• lift-actor, a simple to understand and simpler to use actor library that underpins a lot of Lift's coolest features (e.g. CometActors).
• lift-json, a flexible JSON serialization library that has its own reputation apart of the larger Lift Framework as a reliable, well built JSON library.

We expect current users of Lift to find this library easy to integrate into their existing workflow, and hope that this enables wider use of Kafka for Lift actor communication.

To get started, check out the project homepage on GitHub and pay us a visit on the Lift Mailing List to let us know what you think.