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
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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. |
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the module is available in MavenCentral thanks to the maven-play-plugin. The badge poins to the maven repository of the module. |
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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.
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.You know a tool that every player should use? Tell us!
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