title: Databricks Scala net.liftweb.json parse() cannot initial error
body: <p>I can't find anything else relevant on the web.
  I tried this with both versions of lift 2.12 &amp; 2.10</p>
  
  <p>My cluster/notebook is in apache spark 2.3 &amp; scala 2.11</p>
  
  <p>this code</p>
  
  <pre><code>import net.liftweb.json.DefaultFormats
  import net.liftweb.json._
  ​
  val s = """{"steve":"toby"}"""
  val j = parse(s)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>​
  this error</p>
  
  <pre><code>java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class net.liftweb.json.package$
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help appreciated.  I can't find any positive way to affect this.</p>