Play for Scala

Summary

Play for Scala shows you how to build Scala-based web applications using the Play 2 framework. This book starts by introducing Play through a comprehensive overview example. Then, you'll look at each facet of a typical Play application both by exploring simple code snippets and by adding to a larger running example. Along the way, you'll deepen your knowledge of Scala as a programming language and work with tools like Akka.

About this Book

Play is a Scala web framework with built-in advantages: Scala's strong type system helps deliver bug-free code, and the Akka framework helps achieve hassle-free concurrency and peak performance. Play builds on the web's stateless nature for excellent scalability, and because it is event-based and nonblocking, you'll find it to be great for near real-time applications.

Play for Scala teaches you to build Scala-based web applications using Play 2. It gets you going with a comprehensive overview example. It then explores each facet of a typical Play application by walking through sample code snippets and adding features to a running example. Along the way, you'll deepen your knowledge of Scala and learn to work with tools like Akka.

Written for readers familiar with Scala and web-based application architectures. No knowledge of Play is assumed.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What's Inside

• Intro to Play 2
• Play's MVC structure
• Mastering Scala templates and forms
• Persisting data and using web services
• Using Play's advanced features

About the Authors

Peter Hiltonv, Erik Bakker, and Francisco Canedo, are engineers at Lunatech, a consultancy with Scala and Play expertise. They are contributors to the Play framework.

Table of Contents

PART 1: GETTING STARTED

1. Introduction to Play
2. Your first Play application

PART 2: CORE FUNCTIONALITY

3. Deconstructing Play application architecture
4. Defining the application's HTTP interface
5. Storing data—the persistence layer
6. Building a user interface with view templates
7. Validating and processing input with the forms API

PART 3: ADVANCED CONCEPTS

8. Building a single-page JavaScript application with JSON
9. Play and more
10. Web services, iteratees, and WebSockets

Peter Hilton is a senior solution architect at Lunatech Research in the Netherlands and a committer on the Play framework.

Erik Bakker, also at Lunatech, is a Play module contributor and regularly writes and presents about Play.

Francisco Canedo joined Lunatech in 2005 and has been focused on Scala and Play for the past 2 years.