Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics

Build with SBT

Here, we are going to give a brief introduction to SBT. Before going any further, you need to install SBT using the installation method that fits your system from their official installations methods (URL: http://www.scala-sbt.org/release/docs/Setup.html).

So, let's begin with SBT to demonstrate the use of SBT in a terminal. For this build tool tutorial, we assume that your source code files are in a directory. You need to do the following:

1. Open the terminal and change path to that directory by using cd,
2. Create a build file called build.sbt.
3. Then, populate that build file with the following lines:

           name := "projectname-sbt"           organization :="org.example"           scalaVersion :="2.11.8"           version := "0.0.1-SNAPSHOT"

Let's see the meaning ...