Third-Party Integrations

In this chapter, we’ll explore how you can integrate Lift with some well-known third-party libraries and applications. These are often useful because they provide services and features that may be attractive to your users, or they may simplify your own development. First, we’ll be looking at how you can utilize the OpenID framework to simplify your authentication handling and allow users to reduce the number of accounts they need to manage. Next, we’ll look at how you can use the AMQP messaging protocol to enable asynchronous message passing for high performance and scalability. After that, we’ll examine how you can sue PayPal services for commerce transactions from Lift. We’ll follow that with an examination of the Facebook API for Lift, which you can use to write Facebook applications. Finally, we’ll cover the API for the XMPP messaging protocol, with an example of how you can interface with Google Talk.