Starting a new lift project To start a new lift project install Java 1.5 or 1.6, and Maven 2.0.8 (newer version should work as well). Now let's create your new project cd ~/tmp mvn archetype:create -U \ -DarchetypeGroupId=net.liftweb \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=lift-archetype-basic \ -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.2 \ -DremoteRepositories=http://scala-tools.org/repo-releases \ -DgroupId=com.liftone -Dartifac