Transition to Scala 2.8 and Lift 2.1 turned the usual beginner trails impenetrable. It took me more than a week to figure out how to start with Lift on IntelliJ if you use Scala 2.8. Here's my experience.

While Scala can work with Java collections, and Java, more or less, can work with Scala collections, for sanity sake they better should be kept separate. So how do Java and Scala code exchange collections?