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!
Lists all the modules available with the following badges :
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The modules are divided in the following categories : * Database * Deployment * Injection/dependencies * Language * Messaging/events * Monitoring * Persistence * Presentation * Rest * Scaffolding * Search * Security * Template * Translation * Misc
If you want to contribute information about a module, please refer to the guide.
Creates and runs database migrations using Hibernate schema update to
automatically generate SQL to the migrations. See this blog
post
Enhances Models by adding and updating timestamp fields (created_at
& updated_at).
Export your Play! domain model to a DDL file and import a database into
your Play! domain model.
Generates JPA Entities and Composite keys (when needed) from metadata or
a file containing a list of tables.
Liquibase is a simple, reliable
and elegant solution for database refactoring management
Exports your database into an yml file
Maintains database versions for your project.
Scale your application to multiple databases with a common schema.
Deploys a remote application using Capistrano + SSH + VCS and run it in
nohup/background mode.
Remotely deploys your application.
Provides integration with CloudBees.
Automatically configure the database your application is deployed in In
CloudFoundry.
Deploys your application to dotcloud
Creates application for the Google App Engine platform.
Deploys your application on Heroku.
Deploy your application in the Jelastic Platform.
Provides the basic plumbing to create an
Open eBay Application
Openshift is Red Hat’s free, auto-scaling, cloud-based
platform-as-a-service for Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby
applications.
Maintained module for Google App Engine integration. Should be used
instead of [gae]
playapps.net is a streamlined deployment environment designed to get
your Play applications up and running quickly and efficiently
Configures your application to automatically switch between the HTTP and
HTTPS protocols per page when used behind a front end.
Adds routes through annotations, allowing you to declare your routes in
your controllers.
Easy deployment to Stax cloud hosting platform (http://www.stax.net).
Adds some virtual hosts functionality with separate datasource and
customizable application settings for each virtual host.
Makes integration with the Constretto configration framework easy
Injects Guice managed components into your application.
Manages your dependencies with apache ivy.
Manages your dependencies with apache maven
Allows to use Spring managed beans inside your play! 1.x applications.
This module is aimed at integrating Google Closure tools with play!.
This module provides a helper to simplify the integration of a GWT UI
with Play as an application server.
Integrates Play with GWT
Play Scala enables you to use the Scala language for your application
keeping key properties of the Play framework
Scala code generators for the Play! framework
This module provides basic security (authentication/ authorization) for
Play applications written in Scala.
Allows you to configure akka through
The Play! framework’s conf/application.conf file.
A EIP + Messaging module for the Play! Framework
This module lets you easily add realtime functionality to your Play
applications with Pusher using
websockets.
RabbitMQ offers a highly available and scalable, and yet lightweight,
messaging system.
A Play framework module that performs request logging similar to an
access log file in nginx or apache.
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 is a module which gives many informations like infophp in PHP
language.
Record how many database queries were executed during a request
Provides a log4j appender which publishes log entries to an EventStream
Displays MBean Hibernate statistics
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
Displays a mini profiler in your application
RecordTracking unobtrusively tracks the creation, updating and
elimination events regarding to records.
The module is a wrapper over
StatsD which allow for dead
simple statistic aggregation from within play.
This module reduces the code to manage bi-directional associations.
A module that seamlessly integrates Apache Jackrabbit(JCR 2.0) with Play
framework
Adds Ebean ORM to play!. Still in very experimental phase.
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.
Seamlessly MongoDB access integration with Play’s Model interface.
Provides support for MyBatis persistence framework.
Integrate neo4j database into your play! project.
Objectify is a flexible abstraction on Google App Engine/J which makes
data access simple and elegant
OrientDB for Play! Framework
The Redis Play! module helps you easily use Redis in your Play!
applications
Allow to use riak-java-client in play! way.
The S3Blobs Play Framework Module provides an easy way to read an write
files from Amazon S3 from within JPA entities.
Enables Siena support to map your Java entities to
GAE/MySQL/PostgreSQL/H2 from your play application
Twig superpowers Google App Engine’s Datastore for Play applications.
Get a fluid API, in-memory joins, and asynchronous queries out of the
box.
CoffeeScript is a great way to produce javascript. This module provides
support for it (Java and Scala).
Template based Excel report generator
Helps to write forms and add client and server side validation.
Play with your javascript/css files!
Client-side form validation based on your Play framework model
annotations using HTML5 attributes.
The jQuery UI module provides working examples of jQuery UI widgets,
integrated with a Play application.
Client-side form validation via jQuery, based on your model annotation
A jquery library API for validation, supports Ajax validation (per field
or per form)
Converts less to CSS, and handles
error reporting in your Play application
Easily bring markdown contents into your application.
Eases the implementation of navigation menu.
Define and display navigation menus in your Play application.
A replacement for #{list} tags that allows for easy pagination.
Renders PDF document from your HTML templates. This module is based on
the YaHP Converter library.
Integrates the pegdown
Markdown processor
with your Play application
A JavaScript, CSS and Less minimizer that is designed to be transparent
to the application developer.
Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is CSS, plus nested rules, variables,
mixins, and more, all in a concise, readable syntax.
Simplifies the code needed to display data in HTML tables.
Tabula Rasa provides support for user-customisable tables in views
Bundles up the twitter-bootstrap stylekit and the play less plugin,
easing the .less files edition (changes are dynamically taken into
account).
Integrates Jersey into the Play! Framework.
The RESTEasy Play! module allows you to define JAX-RS RESTful web
services in the Play! Framework using RESTEasy.
The Play! RESTEasy CRUD module which allows you to automagically
generate your RESTful CRUD resources for a given model
Creates a self-documenting meta-description for REST APIs which allows
for code-gen, UI-sandbox, and test framework.
Offers a fully usable web interface for your Siena Model objects with a
few more features than default [crud] module.
An implementation of mocha UI javascript interface for Play!
Creating Bootstrap based applications (derived from the default
[scaffold] module).
Scaffold will generate basic scaffolding for bootstrapping a project
from your JPA or Senia entities
Elastic Search is a Distributed Search Solution based on Apache Lucene.
This module provides an embedded Elastic Server instance for Rapid
Development.
Search allows you to have basic full text search functionalities to your
JPA Model. It is based on Lucene.
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.
This module is a CAS client for Play! application.
This project provides a simple method to integrate sign-up and password
recovery to your project
Deadbolt is an authorisation mechanism for defining access rights to
certain controller methods or parts of a view
Easily integrate Facebook based authentication into any Play framework
application.
Build Play! applications that integrates to Force.com. Provides OAuth
authentication and REST API adapter.
Easily integrate LinkedIn’s OAuth authentication into your Play
Framework application
This module provides tools to connect to an OAuth provider, such as
Twitter or Google.
Quickly integrate reCaptcha.com challenge-response test in your
applications.
Extends the defaut secure module to add permission checks based on the
rules in the Seam Framework (based on Drools rules).
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
Allow users to login to your Play! application via Shibboleth.
Replaces the default groovy template implementation with GT-Engine which
is faster and uses less memory.
A pure Java-based fast statically typed template engine for the Play!
framework version 1.2.x.
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.
PlayRythm is a Razor like template engine.
Scalate Template engine
support.
Play framework module to use
Thymeleaf 2.0 as a template
engine.
Integrates with Cobertura to calculate the percentage of code accessed
by tests (test coverage).
Caches WebService requests to emulate them in order to overcome
connection problems (lag, denial of service, HTTP errors) for fast
developping.
Mockito is a mocking framework that tastes really good
The QUnit module provides integration of JUnit Javascript tests with the
Play! Framework.
Runs Spock specifications
and to write BDD style tests (still wrapped as junit) with the
expressive power of groovy.
Write tests that can auto-magically inject mocks (using Mockito) into
Play applications wired up using the spring module.
The Test Module for Play!Framework helps you write tests quicker, is a
cleaner and reusable manner.
WebDrive module provides Selenium 2 testing support for Play framework
This module will add some tools to ease use of i18n in your Play!
projects.
Module messages provides a web based tool for managing your
application’s localizations.
This module helps to import and export translations from your
application to a Nemrod instance automatically.
Converts default i18n files from an Excel Sheet and the other way
around.
Allows you to edit all the application sources directly in the browser
using bespin, the web code editor.
Integrates with bhave, a web-based
behavior driven development (BDD) framework, for web apps, done in a
funky way!
Simplified API for integration your application with the CheddarGetter
subscription management service.
A very simple embedded CMS
Helps using content types which are not directly supported by default
such as VCard and Atom/RSS feeds using annotations.
Allows easy loading of external config / properties files. This allows
for easy configuration of an app deployed in a war.
Enables you to easily use flags in your application that you can switch
ON and OFF at runtime, using an admin screen.
Enable your Play application to integrate with Google Checkout as a
merchant.
Integrate Gravatar into your Play application
Dropin replacement for EhCacheImpl or MemcachedImpl from Play
Postmark module provides easy integration with postmarkapp.com for
handling outgoing emails
UserAgentCheck displays a banner to notify users when their browser is
outdated.
The Chart module allows for easy generation of chart images.
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