Getting Started with Scala/Lift on GlassFish

Lift is an expressive and elegant framework for writing web applications. Lift stresses the importance of security, maintainability, scalability and performance, while allowing for high levels of developer productivity.

For details on Lift, see here.

Create Lift Application

Create new project

Create interactively

    mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://scala-tools.org/

or

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:1.0-alpha-7:create \ 
 -DarchetypeGroupId=net.liftweb                             \
 -DarchetypeArtifactId=lift-archetype-blank                 \
 -DarchetypeVersion=0.7.1                                   \
 -DremoteRepositories=http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases  \
 -DgroupId=__my.liftapp__ -DartifactId=__liftapp__

or

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:1.0-alpha-7:create \ 
 -DarchetypeGroupId=net.liftweb                             \
 -DarchetypeArtifactId=lift-archetype-basic                 \
 -DarchetypeVersion=0.7.1                                   \
 -DremoteRepositories=http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases  \
 -DgroupId=__my.liftapp__ -DartifactId=__liftapp__

Build the WAR file

    mvn package

Start and Deploy on GlassFish

Start GlassFish

asadmin start-domain -v

Deploy on GlassFish

asadmin deploy liftapp.war

Feedback, Troubleshooting, Discussions

• GlassFish Mailing List
• IssueTracker
• Lift Mailing List

Resources

• Lift
• Lift Tutorial

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