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UPDATE: I originally posted this article in January, 2013, and it's now mid-February, 2013, and we're no longer looking for reviewers. I've only kept this page here so people won't get 404 errors.

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Scala SBT FAQ: How do I put SBT into "offline mode" so I can use it while working on an airplane, or any other location where I don't have a WiFi connection?

Use this setting at the SBT command prompt:

> set offline := true

Warning: I honestly don't know how well this works. I have tried it a few times, and I know it prints out a ton of output, but I haven't paid attention to all that output to see exactly what it does.

To reverse the setting, just change it to false instead of true:

Note: This page is very much a work in progress.

A sample Scala SBT build.sbt file, including the last line, which handles the SBT 're-run with -deprecation for details' warning message. (If you get the 're-run with -deprecation' message, that last line hands the "-deprecation" option over to the compiler, so you can see the deprecation problems.)

When you're using the SBT tool with your Scala projects, it can be helpful to list your "sbt history", the history of your SBT commands. Courtesy of the SBT tool itself, here are the history commands you can use from the sbt command line:

Curious about how well Scala would play with the Spring Framework, I created a small Scala/Spring dependency injection example project, which I'm sharing here.

The short answer is that Scala worked just fine with Spring, but it also showed me that I still have plenty to learn about inheritance in Scala.

My Spring applicationContext.xml file

I copied a Spring applicationContext.xml file from another project, then whittled it down to these bare essentials: