Part 3. Lift in detail

We’ve swept through several of Lift’s features during the construction of the example booking application; it’s now time to take a more extensive tour of the Lift toolset. This part of the book aims to act as a guide and in-depth reference and to provide helpful bits of advice along the way that should smooth your learning curve with Lift.

Chapter 6 covers common techniques for implementing applications with Lift, including templating, views, sessions, and multipage input structures. Chapter 7 covers Lift’s excellent SiteMap module, which provides a lightweight access control mechanism and slick way to componentize logic within your applications. Chapters 8 and 9 cover Lift’s HTTP feature set—from REST web services, through ...

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