Free API web services

Very concise list of free Web APIs: http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory
It is good start for testing REST API calls in your application.

Scala Lift steps how to compile and run

Lift: http://liftweb.net/download
Examples: https://github.com/dpp/simply_lift

git clone https://github.com/dpp/simply_lift
cd simply_lift/samples/http_rest
./sbt
> update
> jetty-run

But this project use old version of scala and lift and sbt

to do Project from scratch with all explanations: http://cookbook.liftweb.net/#InstallAndRunning
just Rest example: http://simply.liftweb.net/index-5.3.html#toc-Section-5.3

Experiments:
#udpate sbt-launch.jar from http://www.scala-sbt.org/release/docs/Getting-Started/Setup.html to latest version

# remove old file to activate changes
rm project/build.properties

#register eclipse plugin https://github.com/typesafehub/sbteclipse/
echo "addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.sbteclipse" % "sbteclipse-plugin" % "2.3.0")" > simply_lift/samples/http_rest/project/plugins.sbt


Deploy (jetty, tomact ):
#create a war in target folder
sbt package

#deploy war to Java application server (jetty, tomcat, ...)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/liftweb/503eibvCvV4

#examples of prod configurations
https://www.assembla.com/spaces/liftweb/wiki/Deployment

Scala vs Nodejs: http://blog.nelsonsilva.eu/2010/12/14/go-vs-scala-vs-nodejs/index.html#disqus_thread

Rest api development best practices resources

Here is just list of resources that I found and do not want search one more time:

Разработка web API / Хабрахабр
http://habrahabr.ru/post/181988/

Designing a Beautiful REST+JSON API (and other video around)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WXYw4J4QOU

steps toward the glory of REST
http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.html

API creation blog:
https://blog.apigee.com/
http://apigee.com/about/api-best-practices/all/ebook

API creation mail list:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/api-craft