Lift Tutorials

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Contents 1 Setup Environment 1.1 Dev 1.2 Requirements 2 HowTo ? 2.1 Getting Started 2.2 Templating 2.3 The Site Map 2.4 Clientside 2.5 Forms 2.6 Web Services 2.7 Database 2.8 Failing Gracefully 2.9 Localization 2.10 Documentation 3 Lift by examples 4 How Lift works 5 User diaries 6 Third part integration 7 Liftweb planet 8 Java Script integration in Lift 9 LiftWeb widgets

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
  • Cygwin or MSYS (shells/utils for win32)

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 2.0.8 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 get/store data in session
• HowTo set response data
• HowTo generate binary data (pdf, image,...)
• HowTo hook into the lift's request processing cycle
• HowTo create simple controls
• HowTo use redirect with state
• HowTo to dynamically *fix* CSS resources
• HowTo configure logging

Getting Started

• 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 set up jEdit
• How to set up tags with Vim

Templating

• HowTo decorate your markup with dynamic attributes
• HowTo set the doctype

The Site Map

• HowTo use the site map

Clientside

• HowTo use Lift with YUI
• CometActor

Forms

• HowTo use JSON forms
• HowTo handle form (basic) : see Hello Darwin#add form
• HowTo get data from request : see Hello Darwin#add form

Web Services

• HowTo do Web Services
• HowTo write url rewrite rules

Database

• 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
• HowTo configure a JNDI data source for lift and Jetty
• HowTo configure a JNDI data source for lift and Tomcat

Failing Gracefully

• HowTo use error pages
• HowTo create a custom 404 Page
• HowTo style the error/warning/notice messages

Localization

• How to localize (under construction)
• HowTo do I18N

Documentation

• HowTo generate scaladocs locally

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

• How lift processes HTTP requests
• Lift View First (usage: LiftTags)
• How lift uses Scala actors
• I18N

User diaries

• Chore wheel
• User:Nuttycom

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)

Db4o

• LiftYourDb4o Sample Application using Db4o and Lift

Liftweb planet

• lift at scala-blogs.org
• David Pollak's Blog (creator of liftweb)

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.

• Suggestions for integrating new Java Script expressions in Lift

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.

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