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
• Search
• 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
• [markdown] Markdown  Easily bring markdown contents into your 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
• [cnm] Content Negotiation Helps using content types which are not directly supported by default such as VCard and Atom/RSS feeds using annotations.
• [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