Preface

The Web allows you to make applications that can be used from anywhere in the world as long as there is an Internet connection. The Play framework has been designed to embrace the characteristics of modern web applications such as handling long-running requests and manipulating data streams.

This book shows you how to write such web applications using Play. I designed it to be progressive so that you can quickly write a running application and then enhance it to benefit from all the components of the Play stack, or from lower-level APIs if you need more control.

Code examples are given in both Scala 2.10 and Java 8 (except for some APIs that have no Java counterpart). You can find executable applications based on the code examples of the book at http://github.com/julienrf/pfe-samples.

Finally, I encourage you to browse the API documentation of the framework to complete the content of this book. You can find it online at http://www.playframework.com/documentation.