Garcia Gilberto T. Lift Application Development Cookbook

Packt Publishing, 2013. — 254 p. — ISBN: 1849515883.Cookbook teaches you how to build web applications using this amazing framework. The book moves gradually, starting with the basics (starting a new project, submitting a form, and so on) before covering more advanced topics such as building a REST API and integrating your application with other technologies and applications.
This book takes you on a journey of creating secure web applications. Step-by-step instructions help you understand how things work and how various elements relate to each other.
You’ll learn different ways to process a form, build dynamic HTML pages, and create an API using REST. You’ll also learn how to work with relational and NoSQL databases and how to integrate your application with other technologies as well as with third-part applications such as Gmail and Facebook.
By the end of the book, you will be able to understand how Lift works and be able to build web applications using this amazing and exciting framework.
What you will learn from this book
Start a new web application using Lift
Manage and validate forms to handle data submitted by users
Build an application to create and maintain client data by using a REST interface
Use Mapper, an ORM system for relational databases, included with Lift
Use Liquibase to manage database changes incrementally
Integrate Lift and Akka
Schedule jobs using Quartz
Integrate your application with JMS queues
Use IoC frameworks such as Google Guice and Spring
Use social media to log in users
Fetch user data from social medi.