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Play Framework essentials

An intuitive guide to creating easy-to-build scalable web applications using the Play framework

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Julien Richard-Foy  
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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    This book targets Java and Scala developers who already have some experience in web development and who want to master Play framework quickly and efficiently. This book assumes you have a good level of knowledge and understanding of efficient Java and Scala code.

    What you will learn

    • Set up a unified development environment for both the clientside and serverside code
    • Understand the challenges of building a scalable web application and master the solutions provided by Play framework
    • Integrate the framework with existing clientside or serverside technologies such as persistence systems
    • Harness the reactive programming model to process data streams
    • Design robust, maintainable, and testable code
    • Be proficient in manipulating JSON data blobs
    • Deploy your application on a PaaS platform

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Building a Web service
    2. Persisting Data and Testing
    3. Turning a Web service into a Web application
    4. Integrating with Client-Side Technologies
    5. Leveraging the Play! stack: security,internationalization, cache, HTTP client
    6. Reactively handling long run requests
    7. Scaling your code base and deploying the application
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-241-7
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 200

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