The following links feature some additional information about the Play framework. It is also a list of interesting articles and resources, which were not mentioned throughout this book, but should help you to get to know the framework better.

http://www.playframework.org

The Play framework homepage features a short introductory video, documentation, code snippets, binary downloads, modules, and many more.

http://www.playframework.org/community/planet

This link is an aggregator for community created content. Such content varies greatly, ranging from small how to's about a specific functionality to bigger articles explaining the usage of modules.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/play-framework

The Play framework's Google group is the most viable source of information. Be aware that this is a high traffic list, featuring far more than 1000 mails a month. Do not hesitate to ask questions as there are lots of active actors on the list.

http://stackoverflow.com/tags/playframework

Stack overflow features in a lot of questions about the Play framework, more than 250 currently.

https://github.com/playframework/play

If you need to take a look at the source code, check out Play framework on GitHub. There used to be a bazaar repository on Launchpad, but GitHub is the primary resource since play 1.1.

https://github.com/alexanderstrebkov/auditlog/wiki/

http://blog.matthieuguillermin.fr/2011/02/utiliser-envers-avec-play-framework/

These two links show different solutions on how to add auditing to your application by using Hibernate Envers. You simply add an annotation to your entities and configure specific entity listeners. Note, that the second link is actually in French, but there is no problem using Google Translate for this. The second URL also does not require an own module for these features.

https://github.com/sebcreme/strike

Strike is a mobile framework on top of SASS, which resembles iPhone behavior. Going to the /@emulator URL shows you basically how your application would look, when rendered on a phone. It seems to not work with the current SASS version however.

https://github.com/hz/play-groovy/

This is quite an interesting module. It allows you to write model and controller code in pure groovy. It is simply a plugin, which uses a groovy compiler for all kinds of classes. It also includes samples for groovy and GPP, especially a (not completely groovy-fied) converted YABE example.

https://github.com/GuyMograbi/play_test_module

http://blog.mograbi.info/p/test-module-for-playframework.html

This test module offers a different approach as the standard Play framework in order to test controllers. The module resembles controller method calls as close as possible. This means, you do not need to call a specific URL, but rather a direct controller method. It is merely a matter of taste, and which approach is preferred. If you like testing more on the Java and method level instead of testing via URLs, you should take a look at this module.

https://github.com/fabienamico/sshdeploy

This little module is a helper for automatic deployment of single nodes via SSH – the secure shell. You can add your node to a configuration file and simply call play sshdeploy:nodeName, which copies and unzips your application to a remote host.

http://www.lunatech-research.com/editorials/tags/playframework

The blog from Lunatech (one of the companies that support Play commercially besides Zenexity) features high quality articles about many aspects of the Play framework. You should definitely get the RSS feed.

http://blog.aheron.de/

A weblog featuring some Play framework specific articles. However, most articles are written in German.

http://agaoglu.tumblr.com/post/2501419423/a-prototype-play-plugin-for-activiti-integration

http://agaoglu.tumblr.com/post/2700789235/activiti-hello-world-on-play

These articles feature a nice integration with Activiti, a business process engine. The second link includes a good step-by-step example.

http://splink.posterous.com/an-amf-module-for-the-amazing-playframework

https://bitbucket.org/maxmc/cinnamon-play/overview

This module allows data exchange with flex and flash clients via AMF3 – the action message format.

Here is a list of twitter nicks you might want to follow, as they sometimes post about the Play framework:

In case you are using IRC (Internet Relay Chat), there is also an IRC channel #playframework on Freenode. You can use the server chat.freenode.net in order to connect to the freenode IRC network.