Lift Tutorials
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Setup Environment
Dev
- IDEs
- Eclipse (Plugin)
- Netbeans (Plugin, Blog/screenshots)
- IDEA (Plugin)
- Editors
- SetUp_jEdit
- Emacs (scala-mode.el distributed with Scala)
- Set up tags with Vim
- Others
Requirements
While not necessarily requirements of using /lift/, the following HowTo sections assume the following software is installed on the development machines:
- Java 5+ (1.5+) (http://java.sun.com)
- Maven 2.0.7 or higher (http://maven.apache.org) + Maven_Mini_Guide
Scala or Jetty don't need to be installed for the tutorials. Maven manage Scala and Jetty through plugins.
HowTo ?
- HowTo run examples
- HowTo Making changes to the samples
- HowTo use maven for lift's user
- HowTo use maven archetypes
- HowTo start a new liftwebapp
- How to localize (under construction)
- HowTo write url rewrite rules : see UrlRewriting
- HowTo handle form (basic) : see Hello Darwin#add form
- HowTo get/store data in session
- HowTo get data from request : see Hello Darwin#add form
- HowTo set response data
- HowTo generate binary data (pdf, image,...)
- HowTo style the error/warning/notice messages
- HowTo hook into the lift's request processing cycle
- HowTo decorate your markup with dynamic attributes
- HowTo create simple controls
- HowTo use error pages
- HowTo use redirect with state
- HowTo do I18N
- HowTo do Web Services
How To? - Database stuff
- HowTo create a basic CRUD
- HowTo integrate the jQuery TableSorter
- HowTo setup composite keys
- HowTo configure lift with MySQL
- How to configure lift with PostgreSQL
- HowTo Log DB queries
Lift by examples
- Hello Darwin
- Using eclipse hotdeploy
- Hello1 (this is a "bare metal" example that doesn't reflect how easy lift is to use, but is helpful for people who want to see how to hand-roll their own configuration files.)
- CookBook
How Lift works
User diaries
Third part integration
Hibernate
- Lift_and_JPA_(javax.persistence) Lift and JPA (javax.persistence)
- More Hibernate In Scala: Annotations versus external XML versus inline XML by Steve Yen (jan 2008)
- Hibernate with Scala by Frank Sommers (jan 2008)
- More Scala with Hibernate by Matt Hellige (oct 2007)
- lucene
- ??? (your favorite lib)
Liftweb planet
Java Script integration in Lift
LiftWeb framework provide and excellent support for building Java Script expressions on server side via Scala code. Please see JsExp, JsCmd from net.liftweb.http.js package.
LiftWeb widgets
LiftWeb framework contains a separate project lift-widgets that holds various widgets to be used out of the box. This is an incremental effort of building rich web components a.k.a widgets that can be used out of the box.
