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Configuring Play2War with Play 2.2 and build.sbt
I had previously used Play2War with Play 2 projects that contained a Build.scala file following the configuration directions from Play2War. However, when attempting to configure a newer project which now uses a build.sbt instead of the...
How to configure an SSL Certificate with Play Framework for https
I spent hours trying to get this to work, and in the end, then problem was that I did not generate the CSR (Certificate Request) myself with the keytool.
How to run a Play Framework Application in Tomcat or JBoss
So you have written an application using Play! Framework 2.x and your System Administrator tells you that he won’t install Play! and that your application needs to run in a supported Java Servlet Container like JBoss,...
Crowd Dialog: Crowdfunding Conference 2013
Some of you have noticed that I have not published much recently. In addition to my day-job, I have been organizing a Crowd Funding conference for Startups and Companies that want to use Crowdfunding to finance...
How to set the Java Version for Compiling a Play Framework Module
@jaliss and I were recently wondering how to make sure that a module was compiled with JSDK 1.6 after we had upgraded the Java Version on our Macbooks.
How to integrate Concordion in Play Framework and write acceptance tests in natural language
After starting to read “Specification by Example”, I wanted to have a go a writing acceptance tests for my Play Framework projects. I stumbled onto Concordion (http://www.concordion.org/), because it is similar to Cucumber but written in and...
How to use Reflection to Document your Data Model based on JPA Annotations
So using JPA, Hibernate or EBeans is cool when you can just annotate your Java classes, but haven’t you always wished you could “generate” documentation of your data model from the code? Pulling information of the...
How to compile and use a Play Framework 2 module with the source from github
Have you ever wanted to download the source of a Play Framework 2.0 module off of github and modify the source and test it? Or have you expected it to be in some repository but for...
Play Framework Tip for developing offline
This ended up being a useful tip from James Roper (@jroper) that I used recently when I was on vacation:
Proof that Java, Scala and Play! Framework Developers do NOT use Internet Explorer!
I was (almost) shocked when I looked at the statistics of which Browsers are being used to access my blog. In absolute numbers Internet Explorer ends up being about 1%. Webkit is almost 75% if you...
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