List/Grid Tag Archives: Play Framework

Play 2 – modules, plugins, what’s the difference?
There seems to be some confusion regarding Play 2 modules and plugins. I imagine this is because the two are often synonymous. In Play (both versions – 1 and 2) there are distinct ...

Troubleshooting Play Framework 2 apps on Openshift
Troubleshooting Openshift With the do-it-yourself application type you really get a lot of freedom to support almost any framework or server that can be built and run on a ...

Publishing Play 2 modules on github
Now you’ve doubtless followed my earlier guides on writing modules for Play 2, I imagine you’re keen to show your coding chops to the world. The problem is – and this is quite ...

Deploy Play Framework 2 apps to Openshift with Java AND Scala
A couple of weeks, Mark Atwood, Jorge Aliss, and me, Sebastián Scarano participated in Red Hat’s webinar LET’S PLAY! IN THE CLOUD: DEVELOPING JAVA WEB APPS ON OPENSHIFT In the ...

Binary websockets with Play 2.0 and Scala
In a recent article I showed how you can use webrtc, canvas and websockets together to create a face detection application whose frontend runs completely in the browser, without the ...

Writing modules for Play 2, part 2: Interceptors
In the first part of this tutorial, we looked at the bare basics for creating, publishing and calling a module. The module we created didn’t really do much, so now it’s time to ...

Connect to RabbitMQ (AMQP) using Scala, Play and Akka
In this article we’ll look at how you can connect from Scala to RabbitMQ so you can support the AMQP protocol from your applications. In this example I’ll use the Play Framework ...

Writing modules for Play 2, part 1: Get something working
A couple of weeks ago, I migrated the Play! framework 1.x version of Deadbolt to the Play 2 platform, and was surprised at the lack of information on creating modules. This topic was ...

Play!ing (2.0) with Twitter Bootstrap, WebSockets, Akka and OpenLayers
The original post can be found on the ekito website. For one of our client, we need to show a map with vehicles position updated in real-time. So I began to make a prototype using ...

The all-new Play Module Repository
Back in November, I spoke to Nicolas Leroux of the Play framework about creating a module repository. He agreed it would be a good idea, but lack of time has prevented me from starting ...


