8.1. HTTP pipeline

It can be useful to understand the HTTP processing pipeline, where these facilities sit, and the classes involved in booting, servicing requests, and destroying a Lift application. Users coming to Lift from other Java frameworks often like to have this wider picture so they can understand the relationship between components and classes in the codebase. This section presents that overview.

With that being said, you can also safely skip this section and go straight to section 8.2 without missing any critical information if you’re only interested in getting things done with Lift’s HTTP feature set.