- Play Framework Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Play Framework Cookbook
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Basics of the Play Framework
- Introduction
- Downloading and installing the Play framework
- Creating a new application
- Defining routes as the entry point to your application
- Configuring your application via application.conf
- Defining your own controllers
- Defining your own models
- Using fixtures to provide initial data
- Defining your own views
- Writing your own tags
- Using Java Extensions to format data in your views
- Adding modules to extend your application
- Using Oracle or other databases with Play
- Understanding suspendable requests
- Understanding session management
- 2. Using Controllers
- Introduction
- URL routing using annotation-based configuration
- Basics of caching
- Using HTTP digest authentication
- Generating PDFs in your controllers
- Binding objects using custom binders
- Validating objects using annotations
- Adding annotation-based right checks to your controller
- Rendering JSON output
- Writing your own renderRSS method as controller output
- 3. Leveraging Modules
- 4. Creating and Using APIs
- 5. Introduction to Writing Modules
- Introduction
- Creating and using your own module
- Building a flexible registration module
- Understanding events
- Managing module dependencies
- Using the same model for different applications
- Understanding bytecode enhancement
- Adding private module repositories
- Preprocessing content by integrating stylus
- Integrating Dojo by adding command line options
- 6. Practical Module Examples
- 7. Running in Production
- Introduction
- Test automation with Jenkins
- Test automation with Calimoucho
- Creating a distributed configuration service
- Running jobs in a distributed environment
- Running one Play instance for several hosts
- Forcing SSL for chosen controllers
- Implementing own monitoring points
- Configuring log4j for log rotation
- Integrating with Icinga
- Integrating with Munin
- Setting up the Apache web server with Play
- Setting up the Nginx web server with Play
- Setting up the Lighttpd web server with Play
- Multi-node deployment introduction
- A. Further Information About the Play Framework
- Index
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Downloading and installing the Play framework
- Creating a new application
- Defining routes as the entry point to your application
- Configuring your application via
application.conf - Defining your own controllers
- Defining your own models
- Using Fixtures to provide initial data
- Defining your own views
- Writing your own tags
- Using Java Extensions to format data in your views
- Adding modules to extend your application
- Using Oracle or other databases with Play
- Understanding suspendable requests
- Understanding session management
Let's begin with Play framework. There is no need for XML configuration, no need to create a war file, just start off with a commandline tool. Play is a full stack. Everything is bundled. All you need to do is download the Play framework, unzip it, and use it.
Once you install it, this chapter will give you a head start about the first steps to carry out after you create you first application. It will provide you the basic knowledge needed for any advanced topic, which is described in the later chapters. After this chapter you know where to look for certain files and how to change them.
Some features presented here are also shown in the only example application for the first chapter, which you can find at examples/chapter1/basic-example.
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