Introducing Play Framework

1. Front Matter

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2. Getting Started with Play 2

   • Prem Kumar Karunakaran

   Pages 1-31

3. Build System

   • Prem Kumar Karunakaran

   Pages 33-44

4. Play Controllers and HTTP Routing

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   Pages 45-64

5. Play Views and Templating with Scala

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   Pages 65-74

6. Concurrency and Asynchronous Programming

   • Prem Kumar Karunakaran

   Pages 75-86

7. Web Services, JSON, and XML

   • Prem Kumar Karunakaran

   Pages 87-104

8. Accessing Databases

   • Prem Kumar Karunakaran

   Pages 105-131

9. Complete Example

   • Prem Kumar Karunakaran

   Pages 133-156

10. Using Play Modules

    • Prem Kumar Karunakaran

    Pages 157-161

11. Application Settings and Error Handling

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    Pages 163-174

12. Working with Cache

    • Prem Kumar Karunakaran

    Pages 175-181

13. Production Deployment

    • Prem Kumar Karunakaran

    Pages 183-186

14. Back Matter

    Pages 187-192

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Enter the world of rapid web application development. This gentle introduction to Play covers all you need to know: it carefully introduces the background concepts before diving into examples, making learning Play 2 enjoyable (it includes the latest Play framework version 2.8).

Introducing Play Framework is crisp, up-to-the-point, and full of valuable information. You will find chapters covering the basics of Play, the sbt build system, the Ebean ORM, web services using Play, production deployment, cache, and more with actual pragmatic code snippets for common tasks.

After reading and using this book, you'll be able to build and deploy Java-based web applications with the Play framework. 

What You Will Learn

• Use the Play framework to do rapid Java-based web application development
• Work with Play controllers and Play views
• Create web services using JSON and XML
• Persist data and access databases
• Use Play modules
Carry out asynch programming
• Cache, deploy, and work with code snippets in Play

Who This Book Is For

Those with at least some prior experience with Java.  

 

• Play
• Java
• MVC
• Scala
• Web
• web development
• software
• programming
• development
• source
• code
• Framework
• Play 2
• Play Framework 2
• AKKA

• Thiruvananthapuram, India

  Prem Kumar Karunakaran

Prem Kumar Karunakaran is an enterprise architect with around 14 years of industry experience. He holds a bachelors degree in electronics engineering and is also an Oracle Certified Java Enterprise Edition Master. He was involved in the architecture and design of many cutting-edge products used by clients around the globe. He has worked with organizations such as Infosys and IBS as an architect and has worked in many projects spanning airlines, logistics, travel and retail. He is passionate about Java and loves to learn new technologies and contributes his time to open source initiatives as well.

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