Play1 Framework

Awesome Play1 ¶

A collection of awesome Play 1.x modules, tools, and resources.

Inspired by awesome-php, awesome-python, frontend-dev-bookmarks and awesome-ruby.

Contributions are always welcome!

Modules¶

Lists all the modules available with the following badges :

Badge	Meaning
	the module is registered in playframework.com/modules. The badge points to the registered page.
	the module is not registered in playframework.com/modules. You have to add an external repository in your `dependencies.yml` file. The badge points to the official module page.
	the module is available in MavenCentral thanks to the maven-play-plugin. The badge poins to the maven repository of the module.
	the module has been updated since playframework.com/modules has been frozen. The badge points to the official module page.

The modules are divided in the following categories : * Database * Deployment * Injection/dependencies * Language * Messaging/events * Monitoring * Persistence * Presentation * Rest * Scaffolding * Security * Template * Translation * Misc

If you want to contribute information about a module, please refer to the guide.

Database¶

[carbonate] Carbonate Creates and runs database migrations using Hibernate schema update to automatically generate SQL to the migrations. See this blog post
[chronostamp] Chronostamp Enhances Models by adding and updating timestamp fields (created_at & updated_at).
[db] Database module Export your Play! domain model to a DDL file and import a database into your Play! domain model.
[jpagen] JpaGen Generates JPA Entities and Composite keys (when needed) from metadata or a file containing a list of tables.
[liquibase] Liquibase Liquibase is a simple, reliable and elegant solution for database refactoring management
[logisimayml] logisima-yml Exports your database into an yml file
[migrate] Database migration Maintains database versions for your project.
[multidb] Multiple Databases Scale your application to multiple databases with a common schema.

Deployment¶

[capistrano] Capistrano Deploys a remote application using Capistrano + SSH + VCS and run it in nohup/background mode.
[cargo] Cargo Remotely deploys your application.
[cloudbees] CloudBees Provides integration with CloudBees.
[cloudfoundry] CloudFoundry Automatically configure the database your application is deployed in In CloudFoundry.
[dotcloud] Dotcloud Deploys your application to dotcloud
[gae] Google App Engine Creates application for the Google App Engine platform.
[heroku] Heroku Deploys your application on Heroku.
[jelastic] Jelastic Deployment Support Deploy your application in the Jelastic Platform.
[openebay] Open eBay Provides the basic plumbing to create an Open eBay Application
[openshift] Openshift Openshift is Red Hat’s free, auto-scaling, cloud-based platform-as-a-service for Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby applications.
[play-gae-q42] Q42's Google App Engine Maintained module for Google App Engine integration. Should be used instead of [gae]
[playapps] playapps.net playapps.net is a streamlined deployment environment designed to get your Play applications up and running quickly and efficiently
[reverseproxy] ReverseProxy Configures your application to automatically switch between the HTTP and HTTPS protocols per page when used behind a front end.
[router] Play Router Annotations Adds routes through annotations, allowing you to declare your routes in your controllers.
[stax] Stax Easy deployment to Stax cloud hosting platform (http://www.stax.net).
[vhost] VHost Adds some virtual hosts functionality with separate datasource and customizable application settings for each virtual host.

Injection/dependencies¶

[constretto] Constretto Makes integration with the Constretto configration framework easy
[guice] Guice Injects Guice managed components into your application.
[ivy] Ivy dependency management Manages your dependencies with apache ivy.
[maven] Maven dependency management Manages your dependencies with apache maven
[spring] Spring Allows to use Spring managed beans inside your play! 1.x applications.

Language¶

[googleclosure] Google Closure This module is aimed at integrating Google Closure tools with play!.
[gwt] Google Web Toolkit This module provides a helper to simplify the integration of a GWT UI with Play as an application server.
[gwt2] GWT2 Integrates Play with GWT
[scala] Scala Play Scala enables you to use the Scala language for your application keeping key properties of the Play framework
[scalagen] Scala Gen Scala code generators for the Play! framework
[scalasecure] Scala secure This module provides basic security (authentication/ authorization) for Play applications written in Scala.

Messaging/events¶

[akka] Akka support Allows you to configure akka through The Play! framework’s conf/application.conf file.
[camel] Camel A EIP + Messaging module for the Play! Framework
[pusher] Pusher This module lets you easily add realtime functionality to your Play applications with Pusher using websockets.
[rabbitmq] RabbitMQ RabbitMQ offers a highly available and scalable, and yet lightweight, messaging system.

Monitoring¶

[accesslog] Accesslog A Play framework module that performs request logging similar to an access log file in nginx or apache.
[betterlogs] BetterLogs Enhances the default logs adding the class and method names, where the log has been called, its signature, the file name and the line.
[infoplay] InfoPlay InfoPlay is a module which gives many informations like infophp in PHP language.
[jpastats] Jpastats Record how many database queries were executed during a request
[log4play] Log4Play Provides a log4j appender which publishes log entries to an EventStream
[play-hibernate-statistics] Hibernate statistics Displays MBean Hibernate statistics
[playerrors] Playerrors Playerrors gathers and informs you about the errors in your production webapps, so you can fix them before your visitors get a chance to complain
[profiler] Mini-profiler Displays a mini profiler in your application
[recordtracking] RecordTracking RecordTracking unobtrusively tracks the creation, updating and elimination events regarding to records.
[statsd] Statsd The module is a wrapper over StatsD which allow for dead simple statistic aggregation from within play.

Persistence¶

[associations] Associations This module reduces the code to manage bi-directional associations.
[cream] JCR for Play! A module that seamlessly integrates Apache Jackrabbit(JCR 2.0) with Play framework
[ebean] EBean ORM support Adds Ebean ORM to play!. Still in very experimental phase.
[mongo] MongoDB Provides a simple, elegant solution for using models stored in mongodb. For a more complex use cases, please take a look at the morphia module.
[morphia] MongoDB Integration Seamlessly MongoDB access integration with Play’s Model interface.
[mybatisplay] MyBatisPlay Provides support for MyBatis persistence framework.
[neo4j] logisima-neo4j Integrate neo4j database into your play! project.
[objectify] Objectify Objectify is a flexible abstraction on Google App Engine/J which makes data access simple and elegant
[orientdb] OrientDB OrientDB for Play! Framework
[redis] Redis The Redis Play! module helps you easily use Redis in your Play! applications
[riak] Riak Allow to use riak-java-client in play! way.
[s3blobs] S3Blobs The S3Blobs Play Framework Module provides an easy way to read an write files from Amazon S3 from within JPA entities.
[siena] Siena Enables Siena support to map your Java entities to GAE/MySQL/PostgreSQL/H2 from your play application
[twig] Twig Twig superpowers Google App Engine’s Datastore for Play applications. Get a fluid API, in-memory joins, and asynchronous queries out of the box.

Presentation¶

[coffee] CoffeeScript CoffeeScript is a great way to produce javascript. This module provides support for it (Java and Scala).
[excel] Excel Template based Excel report generator
[formee] Formee Helps to write forms and add client and server side validation.
[greenscript] Minimize javascript/css files Play with your javascript/css files!
[html5validation] HTML5 Validation Client-side form validation based on your Play framework model annotations using HTML5 attributes.
[jqueryui] Jqueryui The jQuery UI module provides working examples of jQuery UI widgets, integrated with a Play application.
[jqvalidate] JQuery Validation Client-side form validation via jQuery, based on your model annotation
[jqvalidation] Jqvalidation A jquery library API for validation, supports Ajax validation (per field or per form)
[less] Less module Converts less to CSS, and handles error reporting in your Play application
[menu] Menu Eases the implementation of navigation menu.
[navigation] Navigation Define and display navigation menus in your Play application.
[paginate] Paginate A replacement for #{list} tags that allows for easy pagination.
[pdf] PDF module Renders PDF document from your HTML templates. This module is based on the YaHP Converter library.
[pegdown] PegDown Markdown Integrates the pegdown Markdown processor with your Play application
[press] Minimize javascript/css files A JavaScript, CSS and Less minimizer that is designed to be transparent to the application developer.
[sass] Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is CSS, plus nested rules, variables, mixins, and more, all in a concise, readable syntax.
[table] Table Simplifies the code needed to display data in HTML tables.
[tabularasa] Tabula Rasa Tabula Rasa provides support for user-customisable tables in views
[twitterbootstrap] Twitterbootstrap Bundles up the twitter-bootstrap stylekit and the play less plugin, easing the .less files edition (changes are dynamically taken into account).

Rest¶

[jersey] Jersey Integrates Jersey into the Play! Framework.
[resteasy] RESTEasy Play! module The RESTEasy Play! module allows you to define JAX-RS RESTful web services in the Play! Framework using RESTEasy.
[resteasycrud] RESTEasy CRUD module The Play! RESTEasy CRUD module which allows you to automagically generate your RESTful CRUD resources for a given model
[swagger] Swagger Creates a self-documenting meta-description for REST APIs which allows for code-gen, UI-sandbox, and test framework.

Scaffolding¶

[crudsiena] CRUD for Siena Offers a fully usable web interface for your Siena Model objects with a few more features than default [crud] module.
[mocha] Mocha An implementation of mocha UI javascript interface for Play!
[play-bootstrap] Basic bootstrap scaffolding Creating Bootstrap based applications (derived from the default [scaffold] module).
[scaffold] Scaffold Scaffold will generate basic scaffolding for bootstrapping a project from your JPA or Senia entities

Search¶

[elasticsearch] ElasticSearch Elastic Search is a Distributed Search Solution based on Apache Lucene. This module provides an embedded Elastic Server instance for Rapid Development.
[search] Search Search allows you to have basic full text search functionalities to your JPA Model. It is based on Lucene.

Security¶

[browserid] BrowserID BrowserID is an experimental new way of signing into websites. The goal with BrowserID is to design something safe and easy for users and the developers.
[cas] logisima-cas This module is a CAS client for Play! application.
[casino] Casino This project provides a simple method to integrate sign-up and password recovery to your project
[deadbolt] Deadbolt Deadbolt is an authorisation mechanism for defining access rights to certain controller methods or parts of a view
[fbconnect] Facebook connect Easily integrate Facebook based authentication into any Play framework application.
[force] Force.com Build Play! applications that integrates to Force.com. Provides OAuth authentication and REST API adapter.
[linkedin] LinkedIn OAuth Authentication Easily integrate LinkedIn’s OAuth authentication into your Play Framework application
[oauth] OAuth Client This module provides tools to connect to an OAuth provider, such as Twitter or Google.
[recaptcha] Recaptcha Quickly integrate reCaptcha.com challenge-response test in your applications.
[securepermissions] Secure Permissions Extends the defaut secure module to add permission checks based on the rules in the Seam Framework (based on Drools rules).
[securesocial] SecureSocial SecureSocial allows you to add an authentication UI to your app that works with services based on OAuth1, OAuth2, OpenID and OpenID+OAuth hybrid protocols
[shibboleth] Shibboleth Allow users to login to your Play! application via Shibboleth.

Template¶

[fastergt] Faster Groovy Templates Replaces the default groovy template implementation with GT-Engine which is faster and uses less memory.
[japid] Japid Template Engine A pure Java-based fast statically typed template engine for the Play! framework version 1.2.x.
[mustache] Mustache Allows you to define logic-less template snippets that can be used server-side in your Play! views as well as client-side in your JavaScript.
[rythm] Rythm Template Engine PlayRythm is a Razor like template engine.
[scalate] Scalate Scalate Template engine support.
[thymeleaf] Thymeleaf Play framework module to use Thymeleaf 2.0 as a template engine.

Testing¶

[cobertura] Cobertura Integrates with Cobertura to calculate the percentage of code accessed by tests (test coverage).
[httpmock] HttpMock Caches WebService requests to emulate them in order to overcome connection problems (lag, denial of service, HTTP errors) for fast developping.
[mockito] Mockito Mockito is a mocking framework that tastes really good
[qunit] QUnit The QUnit module provides integration of JUnit Javascript tests with the Play! Framework.
[spocktests] Spock tests Runs Spock specifications and to write BDD style tests (still wrapped as junit) with the expressive power of groovy.
[springtester] spring tester Write tests that can auto-magically inject mocks (using Mockito) into Play applications wired up using the spring module.
[tests] Alternative Test module The Test Module for Play!Framework helps you write tests quicker, is a cleaner and reusable manner.
[webdrive] Webdrive WebDrive module provides Selenium 2 testing support for Play framework

Translation¶

[i18ntools] I18ntools This module will add some tools to ease use of i18n in your Play! projects.
[messages] @messages Module messages provides a web based tool for managing your application’s localizations.
[nemrod] Nemrod This module helps to import and export translations from your application to a Nemrod instance automatically.
[play-i18ned] Play-i18ned Converts default i18n files from an Excel Sheet and the other way around.

Misc¶

[bespin] Bespin online editor Allows you to edit all the application sources directly in the browser using bespin, the web code editor.
[bhave] Bhave Integrates with bhave, a web-based behavior driven development (BDD) framework, for web apps, done in a funky way!
[cheese] Cheese Simplified API for integration your application with the CheddarGetter subscription management service.
[cms] Cms A very simple embedded CMS
[externalconfig] External Config Allows easy loading of external config / properties files. This allows for easy configuration of an app deployed in a war.
[featureflags] Feature Flags Enables you to easily use flags in your application that you can switch ON and OFF at runtime, using an admin screen.
[googlecheckout] Google Checkout Enable your Play application to integrate with Google Checkout as a merchant.
[gravatar] Gravatar Integrate Gravatar into your Play application
[hazelcast] Hazelcast Dropin replacement for EhCacheImpl or MemcachedImpl from Play
[postmark] Postmark Postmark module provides easy integration with postmarkapp.com for handling outgoing emails
[useragentcheck] UserAgentCheck UserAgentCheck displays a banner to notify users when their browser is outdated.
[play1-chart] Play1-Chart The Chart module allows for easy generation of chart images.

Tools¶

You know a tool that every player should use? Tell us!

Resources¶

Mavenized modules and how to use them
Using Play's controller with a nice roundup about caching, expiration and eTags
Using Luo's cache4 annotation

License¶

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