June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
253 pages
5h 5m
English
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Chapter 1. Installing and Running Lift
This chapter covers questions regarding starting development with Lift: running a first Lift application and setting up a coding environment. You’ll find answers regarding production deployment in Chapter 10.
Downloading and Running Lift
Problem
You want to install and run Lift on your computer.
Solution
The only prerequisite for installing and running Lift is to have Java 1.5 or later installed. Instructions for installing Java can be found at http://java.com/.
You can find out if you have Java from the shell or command prompt by asking for the version you have installed:
$ java -version java version "1.7.0_13" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_13-b20) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.7-b01, mixed mode)
Once you have Java, the following instructions will download, build, and start a basic Lift application.
For Mac and Linux
- Visit http://liftweb.net/download and download the most recent Lift 2.5 ZIP file.
- Unzip the file.
- Start Terminal or your favourite shell tool.
- Navigate into the unzipped folder and into the scala_29 subfolder and then into the lift_basic folder.
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Run
./sbt. - Required libraries will be downloaded automatically.
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At the SBT prompt (>), type
container:start. - Open your browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/.
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When you’re done, type
exitat the SBT prompt to stop your application from running.
For Windows
- Visit http://liftweb.net/download and locate the link to the most recent ZIP version of Lift 2.5 and save ...
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