Question

I want to develop a rather simple web application in Scala, with Lift or Play framework, using Eclipse as an environment and some simple webserver like Jetty. However, to my inexpressibly great surprise, I cannot setup the whole thing to work together. I also could not find any sensible simple and clear guide on how to do this. After a half day of searching, I came to an opinion that everyone around seem to use a mix of sbt/maven and feel it ok migrating from one to another and writing project config files manually just to get a simple blank project to begin with.

There is no plain simple way to create even an empty project. With Java I remember that it was a couple of clicks – to integrate a webserver into Eclipse, create a simple web app project and run it right from there. Where had gone the power and simplicity of Scala in this case? And that’s only if I want to try Lift. What if I would like to try Play also, should I travel the same path again?

Is there anywhere a simple and complete guide that describes how to setup the environment so that it is possible to start developing the apps right away?

UPDATE: I have reached a successful Play project integration with Eclipse, with all the capabilities that Play has out-of-the-box, thanks to the advice of Peter Gwiazda. I am using this setup for developing right now. However, my question of interest remains: what are other ways to acheive similar functionality with other frameworks such as Lift, Scalatra and others?

Answer 1

With Playframework 2.0 it’s pretty simple. Just follow the tutorial
http://www.playframework.org/documentation/2.0/ScalaTodoList

With Play you don’t need anything else – Play already contains a server.

IMHO Play is way easier to work with than Lift.