Install Lift 2.1 in MacOSX Leopard > (4) Create a Lift Project with Maven:

The Apache Maven has become a standard, a standard that is already installed in Mac OS X Leopard by default, and there is no need to installed again. It is also possible to update it.

Once the maven is installed, we can use it to create a Lift Project, you could start the mvn command, and create a project with the following structure.

mvn archetype:generate \
 -DarchetypeGroupId=net.liftweb \
 -DarchetypeArtifactId=lift-archetype-basic_2.8.0 \
 -DarchetypeVersion=2.1 \
 -DarchetypeRepository=http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases \
 -DremoteRepositories=http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases \
 -DgroupId=org.activoricordi.app \
 -DartifactId=lift_app_test \
 -Dversion=1.0

We are going to analyze each of the terms on this archetype:

• archetype:create -U: It indicates the type of archetype we are going to use, there could be others which we will use to build the application or deployed
• -DarchetypeArtifactId can have one of the three values
  • – lift-archetype-blank: To create a blank project without any database or ORM.
  • – lift-archetype-basic:To create a liftweb project with ORM and derby database, it is good for prototyping a project and help to start with beginners
  • – lift-archetype-jpa-basic To create a liftweb project with ORM and jpa database

  We modify the following parameters to adjust it to our project:

  -DgroupId=org.activoricordi.app \
   -DartifactId=lift_app_test \
   -Dversion=1.0
  

  Once the execution of the Maven is completed, we execute the following commands:

  cd  hellodarwin
  mvn jetty:run
  

  It will immediately show the typical Lift application demo.

  You could see an screenscast describing this process on the following video:

  Getting Started with the Lift Web Framework Part II from Matt Harrington on Vimeo.