Introducing Play Framework: Java Web Application Development

by Prem Kumar Karunakaran

Overview

Enter the world of rapid web application development. This gentle introduction to Play covers all you need to know: it carefully introduces the background concepts before diving into examples, making learning Play 2 enjoyable (it includes the latest Play framework version 2.8).

Introducing Play Framework is crisp, up-to-the-point, and full of valuable information. You will find chapters covering the basics of Play, the sbt build system, the Ebean ORM, web services using Play, production deployment, cache, and more with actual pragmatic code snippets for common tasks.

After reading and using this book, you'll be able to build and deploy Java-based web applications with the Play framework. 

What You Will Learn

• Use the Play framework to do rapid Java-based web application development
• Work with Play controllers and Play views
• Create web services using JSON and XML
• Persist data and access databases
• Use Play modules
Carry out asynch programming
• Cache, deploy, and work with code snippets in Play

Who This Book Is For

Those with at least some prior experience with Java.  

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484256459
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	03/06/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Prem Kumar Karunakaran is an enterprise architect with around 14 years of industry experience. He holds a bachelors degree in electronics engineering and is also an Oracle Certified Java Enterprise Edition Master. He was involved in the architecture and design of many cutting-edge products used by clients around the globe. He has worked with organizations such as Infosys and IBS as an architect and has worked in many projects spanning airlines, logistics, travel and retail. He is passionate about Java and loves to learn new technologies and contributes his time to open source initiatives as well.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Getting started with Play 2.- Chapter 2: Build System.- Chapter 3: Play Controllers and HTTP Routing.- Chapter 4: Play Views and Templating with Scala.- Chapter 5: Concurrency  and Asynchronous programming.- Chapter 6: Web Services, Json and XML.- Chapter 7: Accessing Databases.- Chapter 8: Complete Example.- Chapter 9: Using Play modules.- Chapter 10:  Application Settings&Error handling.- Chapter 11: Working with Cache.- Chapter 12: Production Deployment.