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30 30  With Web 2.0, building concurrent WebObjects applications is a must.
31 31  Developing and maintaining a concurrent or multi-threaded WebObjects application can be challenging.
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33 -Scala offers concurrency that is (effectively) built-in to the language and is inherently thread-safe.
34 -In other words, developing Ajax (i.e asynchronous communication) with WO will require concurrent request handling and thread-safe code, for which Scala is a better choice than Java.
33 +The lack of static variables means that Scala is inherently thread-safe.
34 +It has concurrency that is effectively built-in to the language in the form of Actors.
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36 -In addition Scala offers itself as a solution for tasks that typically would have involved threads in a WebObjects application
36 +So for WebObjects developers, Scala offers itself as a powerful, safe and easy-to-use solution for concurrent applications.
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38 38  === Can WebObjects be Programmed In Scala? ===
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