Throughout this book, we used the Activator and SBT build and development tools. However, when we talk about production, we can't run the application with SBT or Activator; we need to do a standalone deploy.
What about standard Java Servlet containers, such as Tomcat? Tomcat is great; however, Play is greater. You won't get better performance by deploying your app on Tomcat. The standalone play uses Netty, which has superior network stack.
There are some small changes that we will need to make in order to deploy our application for Jasper reports. Don't worry; these changes are very simple and straightforward.