lift QuickStart

Wednesday, June 6. 2007

This is a quick walk-through of creating a lift web project.

Before we start, you will need the following installed on your computer:

Subversion - you can find clients at http://subversion.tigris.org/
Java - 1.5 or 1.6 download from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
Scala - This code was tested with Scala 2.5.0-final download from http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/index.html
Maven 2 - version 2.0.x download from http://maven.apache.org/download.html

To get a project up and running:

Get the lift source code (yes, lift is in alpha and running off the development trunk is currently the recommended mechanism for using it.)

Using a GUI Subversion tool, load the source from http://liftweb.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0_2_0/
From the command line svn checkout http://liftweb.googlecode.com/svn/tags/0_2_0/ liftweb

Build lift:

From a command prompt, cd liftweb/liftweb
mvn clean:clean install
Maven will run and you should see output like:
[INFO] [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Reactor Summary: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Lift .................................................. SUCCESS [0.770s] [INFO] Lift Core ............................................. SUCCESS [35.683s] [INFO] Lift Example .......................................... SUCCESS [10.317s] [INFO] Skittr Example ........................................ SUCCESS [12.706s] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 59 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Wed Jun 06 10:36:15 PDT 2007 [INFO] Final Memory: 11M/132M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Run the lift example code:

cd example
mvn jetty:run
Point your browser to http://localhost:8888 and see the lift example site
Go back to the command prompt and type ctrl-C to stop the web server
cd .. so that you are in the "liftweb/liftweb" directory

Create your own project:

cd new_proj
scala new_proj.scala MyProject ~/tmp/MyProject com.myproject
cd into the newly created project directory (in this case, ~/tmp/MyProject)
mvn install jetty:run
Point your browser to http://localhost:8888 and see your brand new project

Join the lift group (http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb) and give feedback, ask questions, and make lift better

Posted by David Pollak in Scala at 10:49 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I posted a real beginner's step-by-step on my eclectic-pencil.blogspot.com which any newbie to web apps should be able to follow as easily as any ruby-rails or Squeal Seaside quick-start
If anything is not crystal clear there, I hope someone will correct me

#1 Robert Shiplett (Homepage) on 2007-06-09 10:33 (Reply)

Thanks Dave

I have another perhaps daft question. What would be the best way to use lift with eclipse?

#2 Ray Waterman (Homepage) on 2007-07-04 05:12 (Reply)

download lift, cd into the directory and type 'mvn install'

cd into example

type 'mvn eclipse:eclipse'

In Eclipse, "import" the project in the example directory.

#2.1 David Pollak (Homepage) on 2007-07-09 13:23 (Reply)

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