Learning Play! Framework 2

Book Preface

This book not only provides you with the opportunity to discover all the basics of Play! Framework 2, but also gives you an insight into its advanced features. This new version of Play! Framework has inherited a lot of features from the previous versions, but it has also learned from them. Thus, it comes with fresh thoughts, a clear vision, and amazing new APIs.

The book will focus on what kind of applications can be built using Play! Framework 2, and what kind of technologies can be used easily with it. In order to demonstrate how it can be easy and fast, we’ll build a full application from scratch, integrating as many functionalities as will be needed by any modern web application.

Given that Play! Framework 2 can be used with both Java and Scala, you’ll be introduced to the Scala programming language. However, most of the examples are in Java.