SBT-Lift-Skeleton is a project mainly written in ..., it's free.
Pre-configured for lift M8, jetty and org.specs.
Install Simple Build Tool first. Then run
$ sbt update
$ sbt jetty
And now you can access the application in http://localhost:8080
There is currently only one test that checks all the xml files in src/main/webapp directory for well-formedness.
$ sbt test