Loft

Continuation based non-blocking, asynchronous, single threaded web server. Inspired by Swirl (sugar for Tornado), Tornado itself and Deft

#Usage: object ExampleHandler extends RequestHandler {

  @Asynchronous
  def get() {
    val http = AsyncHTTPClient()
    reset {
      val id = redis get("roger_schildmeijer");   //async call
      val result = http fetch("http://127.0.0.1:8080/" + id); //async call
      write(result)
      finish 
    }
  }

  val application = Application(Map("/".r -> this))

  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val httpServer = HTTPServer(application)
    httpServer listen(8888)
    IOLoop start
  }

}

#Disclaimer Loft is far from (production) ready. The example above (ExampleHandler) is the proposed syntax for doing asynchronous calls. The initial plan for Loft is to adopt as much as possible from the facebook/tornado master branch.

#Requirements Java >= 1.5
Scala >= 2.8.0 (for loft developers: enable Scala continuation plugin (-P:continuations:enable))