Tag: Lift

Chapter 3 of Lift in Action is interesting because it reveals the elegance and simplicity of Lift’s View-Snippet-Model and templating system, actually showing how one would approach a workflow, from View First design and designer deliverables to template nesting and menu building, and from application requirements to business object modeling. In the midst of all this, the active record-like Mapper “ORM” is presented in quite useful fashion. You can find the code (in my repo, which is fully compatible with Lift 2.5 and sbt 0.12) here (at Tag “chapter03”): https://github.com/victorkane/LiftInActionAuctionApp/tree/chapter03

For development, it is quite common to use the built in H2 database engine, and this is no exception. So while it’s very cool I don’t have to start installing “stacks” of base software just to run the code, how do I get to visualize the database, as I would with, say, Phpmyadmin for MySql? The Lift community continues to impress in this case by conveniently documenting two ways:

Here’s what I did to get the Lift in Action tutorial auction application dev’ed up and running with Lift 2.5 and sbt 0.12.1:

[Edit: Since I started on this over the last couple of days, my work has been made considerably easier by the timely publication of Instant Lift Web Applications by Torsten Uhlmann. Congratulations on this up-to-date and pithy masterpiece! In any case I want to persevere on this front too.]