List/Grid Tag Archives: Play Framework

Call response WebSockets in Play Framework
I got a question from a Play user about implementing call/response WebSockets in Play Framework. This is not something that comes up that often, since it means using WebSockets to do ...

Real-time charts with Play Framework and Scala: extreme productivity on JVM for web
Being a hardcore back-end developer, whenever I am thinking about building web application with some UI on JVM platform, I feel scared. And there are reasons for that: having experience ...

Advanced routing in Play Framework
We frequently get questions about how to meet all sorts of different routing needs in Play Framework. While the built in router is enough for most users, sometimes you may encounter ...

Using twitter4j with Play! Framework and Secure Social is this easy
During yesterday’s personal Hackathon, I started a project which I might introduce here sometime. But the coolest revelation was (again) how easy it was to get up and ...

Understanding the Play Filter API
With Play 2.1 hot off the press, there have been a lot of people asking about the new Play filter API. In actual fact, the API is incredibly simple: trait ...

Play 2.0 framework and XA transactions
XA transactions are useful and out of the box, Play 2.0 today does not have support for them. Here I show how to add that support: First off, some examples when XA is useful: - JPA ...

Play Framework posted values revisited
Working with posted values with Play Framework 2.0, without defining a form mapping, might not be so obvious as it was with Play 1.x, that’s why I’m writing this quick cheatsheet. ...

Eat your own dog food, but throw in some unknown biscuits for variety
Well, the example app that Jorge Aliss asked me to write to demonstrate a combination of SecureSocial and Deadbolt is working, and working nicely, and as soon as I’ve prettied it ...

Web development frameworks – part 2 : Play Framework 2.0
As the first candidate of our evaluation series we reviewed the Play Framework v2.0. The tutorial and reference documentation used for this article is all available from the Play documentation ...

Proof of Concept: Play! Framework
We are starting a new project and we have to choose the web framework. Our default choice is grails, because the team already has experience with it, but I decided to give Play! and ...


