3.6. Summary

The application is starting to take shape. In this chapter, we’ve covered what it takes to create an application that has a basic but functional administration interface and a rather fetching frontend. OK, so the frontend is a little light on functionality right now, but we’ve covered some of the core working practices of Lift development, including the options available to you when working with designers, how to separate your templates into reusable sections, and Lift’s scaffolding mechanisms for boosting development productivity. We also covered Mapper, the default ORM system in Lift, and showed you how to define your models, create database tables, and establish intermodel relationships.

In the next chapter, you’ll be adding the bulk of the functionality to the frontend of the auction application: listing available auctions, building the bidding interface, and setting up push notifications. You’ll also be learning about Lift’s awesome Comet support, which you’ll use to implement some of these features, as well as its unified and secure AJAX support.