There are some good suggestions for using Lift on this thread. Please try the following:
git clone git://github.com/dpp/lift-samples.git tar -xzvf lift-samples/jetty_instance.tgz cd jetty_instance cp *your_war_file_from_mvn_install* webapp/root.war ./start_prod.sh Open a browser to http://localhost:9910 So, that's how I deploy my Lift apps. I use a separate jetty instance for each app. It costs about 32MB of RAM over sharing apps per jetty instance (this can be material if you're in a VPS). Hope this helps. On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Nolan Darilek <no...@thewordnerd.info>wrote: > > Hi, all. I'm new to Lift and have a few questions about using it. For > background, I'm coming from Ruby to Scala, having finally been > frustrated by some aspects of the former enough to try jumping ship. I > know Java syntax, but the simplicity of Ruby has always been a powerful > draw for me, so when I used Java I always stayed away from Maven and > other cornerstones of the Java tool community. I say all of this not to > stir up Ruby vs. Scala drama (because we just don't have enough of that > already :P ) but to explain that I'm mistified by much of the Java > ecosystem, and a lot of what's out there seems to take it for granted > that I know all of this. So please pardon my newbie questions, and feel > free to point me to the FM on the subject if there is one, because I've > certainly been *trying* to RTFM. :) I also recognize that these topics > aren't specific to Lift, but I figure I'm likely to find more proponents > of low ceremony in the Scala community than I'd find if I seeked out > some more general purpose Java enterprise deployment resource. > > First...servlets? Web containers? App servers? Oh my. I want to write a > few hobbyist apps with Lift and deploy them to my VPS. They may or may > not take off, in which case I'd like a solution that can scale to > real-world use. Not heavy real-world use, mind you, but I figure a > separate VM/port for every app instance is overkill. So what do I need > for this? I gather the app server is what handles arranging web apps in > a single VM instance, but it's tough cutting through all the enterprise > language to figure out which one of these is best for my circumstances, > especially since I'm not dealing with legacy code and just want to > launch hobbyist/personal projects. And I can't for the life of me figure > out whether Tomcat is an app server or something else entirely. This > seems so much more complicated than just throwing up a few Mongrels and > a load balancer, or reading through the nicely-written Passenger manual > and following the step-by-step instructions. I'm sure it has its > advantages, I just can't get a grip on how it works. > > I've also been reading a lot about OSGi and it looks really nice. Am I > correct in assuming that OSGi is to Java web apps what Rack is to Ruby > ones? OK, maybe not exactly, and I know it's a more general-purpose > mechanism (I'm toying with ScalaModules in a desktop app for providing > pluggable UIs and other services) but in poking through OSGi articles, > I've read a few statements hinting that this is probably the best way to > deploy new apps with no legacy dependencies. Is this true? Is an app > server actually needed here, or do I just create an OSGi execution > environment and start adding bundles? > > It seems like the way to deploy an app is to build a war file and drop > it into a specific directory of your servlet/app > server/doohicky-whatamajig serverletcontainerthingie. It also looks as > if all apps are installed into the same HTTP namespace, with URL path > collisions resolved by editing web.xml and prepending something to the > /* for the map elements. Is this accurate? Or is it possible to have the > server prepend /myapp or /myapp.war based on the name of the deployed > app, then handle the mappings via ProxyPass in the front-end server? > That's closer to what I'm used to in Ruby, where the app takes over the > URL namespace beneath whatever path you assign it, but it's not clear to > me based on what I've read that this happens with Java app servers. > > Thanks for reading, and again, feel free to respond with a link or > google keywords if I'm just missing something obvious. One of the > biggest challenges I find myself facing with this move is that most of > what I've found assumes a high ceremony->low ceremony migration path, or > at least assumes that you've spent enough time in the Java ecosystem at > some point to get it. :) > > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
