If you need help building web applications with the Lift framework, this cookbook provides scores of concise, ready-to-use code solutions. You’ll find recipes for everything from setting up a coding environment to creating REST web services and deploying your application to production.
Built on top of the Scala JVM programming language, Lift takes a different—yet ultimately easier—approach to development than MVC frameworks such as Rails. Each recipe in this book includes a discussion of how and why each solution works, not only to help you complete the task at hand, but also to illustrate how Lift works.
Set up an environment and run your first Lift application
Generate HTML, using Lift’s View First approach
Submit forms and work with form elements
Build REST web services with the framework’s RestHelper trait
Take advantage of Lift’s support for Ajax and Comet
Get examples for modifying Lift’s request pipeline
Convert Scala classes into tables, rows, and columns in a relational database
Send email, call URLs, and schedule tasks from your application
Package and deploy your application to various hosted services