Play Framework Cookbook

Play Framework Cookbook

By : Alexander Reelsen

Buy this Book

Play Framework Cookbook

By: Alexander Reelsen

Buy this Book

Overview of this book

The Play framework is the new kid on the block of Java frameworks. By breaking with existing standards the play framework tries not to abstract away from HTTP as most web frameworks do, but tightly integrates with it. This means quite a shift for Java programmers. Understanding these concepts behind the play framework and its impact on web development with Java are crucial for fast development of applications. The Play Framework Cookbook starts where the beginner documentation ends. It shows you how to utilize advanced features of the Play framework – piece by piece and completely outlined with working applications! The reader will be taken through all layers of the Play Framework and provided with in-depth knowledge from as many examples and applications as possible. Leveraging the most from the Play framework means to think simple again in a java environment. Implement your own renderers, integrate tightly with HTTP, use existing code, improve site performance with caching and integrate with other web services and interfaces. Learn about non-functional issues like modularity or integration into production and testing environments. In order to provide the best learning experience during reading Play Framework Cookbook, almost every example is provided with source code, so you can start immediately to integrate recipes into your own play applications.

Play Framework Cookbook

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Basics of the Play Framework

Introduction

Downloading and installing the Play framework

Creating a new application

Defining routes as the entry point to your application

Configuring your application via application.conf

Defining your own controllers

Defining your own models

Using fixtures to provide initial data

Defining your own views

Writing your own tags

Using Java Extensions to format data in your views

Adding modules to extend your application

Using Oracle or other databases with Play

Understanding suspendable requests

Understanding session management

Using Controllers

Introduction

URL routing using annotation-based configuration

Basics of caching

Using HTTP digest authentication

Generating PDFs in your controllers

Binding objects using custom binders

Validating objects using annotations

Adding annotation-based right checks to your controller

Rendering JSON output

Writing your own renderRSS method as controller output

Leveraging Modules

Introduction

Dependency injection with Spring

Dependency injection with Guice

Using the security module

Adding security to the CRUD module

Using the MongoDB module

Using MongoDB/GridFS to deliver files

Creating and Using APIs

Introduction

Using Google Chart API as a tag

Including a Twitter search in your application

Managing different output formats

Binding JSON and XML to objects

Introduction to Writing Modules

Introduction

Creating and using your own module

Building a flexible registration module

Understanding events

Managing module dependencies

Using the same model for different applications

Understanding bytecode enhancement

Adding private module repositories

Preprocessing content by integrating stylus

Integrating Dojo by adding command line options

Practical Module Examples

Introduction

Adding annotations via bytecode enhancement

Implementing your own persistence layer

Integrating with messaging queues

Using Solr for indexing

Writing your own cache implementation

Running in Production

Introduction

Test automation with Jenkins

Test automation with Calimoucho

Creating a distributed configuration service

Running jobs in a distributed environment

Running one Play instance for several hosts

Forcing SSL for chosen controllers

Implementing own monitoring points

Configuring log4j for log rotation

Integrating with Icinga

Integrating with Munin

Setting up the Apache web server with Play

Setting up the Nginx web server with Play

Setting up the Lighttpd web server with Play

Multi-node deployment introduction

Further Information About the Play Framework

Further information

Index

Customer Reviews

5 star

4 star

3 star

2 star

1 star

About the Reviewers

Erik Bakker works as a software engineer for Lunatech Research in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Lunatech provides consulting and application development services for Play and a range of other Java technologies, with small teams of highly skilled people, and employs two Play committers. Erik has a long-time interest in web application development and has been building web application for years, both small and large, using various languages and frameworks. In 2010, he got hooked to the Play framework, which he has been using for various projects, and has since written several editorials on the subject. Erik excels at translating business needs into technical requirements and solutions. He holds a master’s degree in physics from Utrecht University and you can write to him at <[email protected]>.

Guillaume Bort is co-founder and CTO of Zenexity, a French “web-oriented architecture” company. He is the creator and lead developer of the Play framework, which makes it easier to build Web applications in Java. Made by web developers, Play focuses on developer productivity and targets RESTful architectures.

Steve Chaloner, a Brit living in Belgium, has been developing in Java since 1996, and has been an avid user of the Play framework since 2010. Steve has introduced Play into several companies for projects ranging from the fairly small to the extremely large. He is the author of several Play modules, including the Deadbolt authorization system.

His company, Objectify (http://www.objectify.be), specializes in rapid development using JVM languages and runs training courses on Play.

Pascal Voitot lives in Paris, France and is 34 years old. He is a senior developer and technical expert mainly focused on open source server solutions. He has been working in the mobile telecommunication and banking domains developing industrial solutions and then in R&D on secured mobile services. In parallel, he has become an enthusiast open source supporter and contributor. He currently works as technical expert in Java open source business services, mainly focused on web content management solutions.

His favorite subjects nowadays are nowadays lightweight and distributed servers, rich client and fast development web/mobile interfaces, and simple and scalable content management systems.

He’s currently lead developer of Siena project (http://www.sienaproject.com), a Java lightweight object mapping API bridging SQL and NoSQL databases based on active record design. He is also an active supporter and contributor of Play, a “Rails inspired” Java/Scala framework.

Play Framework Cookbook

By : Alexander Reelsen

Play Framework Cookbook

By: Alexander Reelsen

Overview of this book

Related Content you might be interested in

Current Title:

Play Framework Cookbook

About the Reviewers