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Play 2.0 is a high-productivity Java and Scala web application framework that integrates the components and APIs you need for modern web application development.

Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture and features predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications thanks to its reactive model, based on Iteratee IO.

About

1. Play 2.0 a Web framework for a new era

Getting started

1. Installing Play 2.0
2. Creating a new application
3. Anatomy of a Play 2.0 application
4. Using the Play 2.0 console
5. Setting up your preferred IDE
6. Built-in documentation
7. Sample applications

Working with Play 2.0

1. Play 2.0 for Scala developers
2. Play 2.0 for Java developers

Detailed topics

1. The Build system
   1. About sbt settings
   2. Manage application dependencies
   3. Working with sub-projects
2. Working with public assets
   1. Using CoffeeScript
   2. Using LESS CSS
   3. Using Google Closure Compiler
   4. Using RequireJS
3. Managing database evolutions
4. Configuration file syntax and features
   1. Configuring the JDBC connection pool
   2. Configuring the internal Akka system
   3. Configuring logging
5. Deploying your application
   1. Additional configuration
   2. Deploying to Heroku
   3. Deploying to Cloud Foundry
   4. Deploying to CloudBees
   5. Set-up a front-end HTTP server

Additional documentation

1. Scala
2. Akka
3. sbt
4. Configuration
5. Logback

Hacking Play 2.0

1. Building Play 2.0 from source
2. CI server at Cloudbees
3. Repositories
4. Issue tracker
5. Pull requests
6. Contributor guidelines

Modules and plugins

1. Temporary modules directory

Security policy

1. play's security policy

User groups

1. User groups around the world

Contributing to this documentation

The documentation is freely editable on https://github.com/playframework/Play20/wiki. Feel free to fix mistakes directly in the pages.

However if you want to provide additional documentation, please create new pages and reference them from here. A member of the core team will take care of integrating it in the most appropriate section.

###Needs to be integrated

• Play 2.0 for Play 1.x developers
• Howto write modules
• IDE
• 3.1 Developing with the H2 Database