Scala, and in turn, the Lift development requires a JVM and because of this, you'll need to install Java 7 on your computer. However, you can skip this step if you already have it installed. If not then go to http://java.com and click on the Free Java Download button. Then, download and install the JDK appropriate for your OS.

Carry out the following steps:

The ZIP file contains some examples of Lift applications such as a blank application that you can use to start your application from scratch. It also contains a basic Lift application that contains Blueprint CSS and ready-to-use Mapper models, which you can use as the start point when building your own application.

The lift_basic folder contains a working Lift application. This means that you have SBT and a configured, ready-to-use project in it.

When we ran SBT, it started to download all the required libraries that the application needs (these dependencies are defined in the build.sbt file). Once this step is done, we can start the application.

After downloading the required libraries, we ran the container:start command provided by the sbt-web-plugin that deploys the Lift application into an embedded Jetty server.

You can see that inside the lift_basic application, there is a folder called project which contains a file called project.sbt. In that file, you will see that it defines three plugins for SBT. The first defined plugin is the XSBT plugin. After the XSBT plugin, there is the sbt-idea plugin and the sbteclipse plugin. The former is to enable SBT to be integrated with IntelliJ IDEA, and the latter enables SBT to be integrated with Scala IDE. Another thing to notice in the plugins.sbt file is that it matches the version of SBT to select the correct version of the sbt-web-plugin.

To install and run Lift on Linux or Mac, perform the following steps: