Start working on your Flink Scala program in a few simple steps.
## Requirements
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## Alternative Build Tools: SBT
To build and run applications with SBT instead of Maven is pretty straight forward. After creating the standard sbt [directory layout](http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13/tutorial/Directories.html) it's enough to add the Flink dependencies to the `build.sbt` file:
Now the application can be executed by `sbt run`. By default SBT runs an application in the same JVM itself is running in. This can lead to lass loading issues with Flink. To avoid these, append the following line to `build.sbt`: