README.md

WAR Plugin for Play framework 2.x

Current versions:
    Play 2.2.x          : 1.2.1
    Play 2.3.0 -> 2.3.1 : 1.3-beta1 (Scala 2.10 & 2.11)
    Play 2.3.2+         : 1.3-beta3 (Scala 2.10 & 2.11)
    Play 2.4.x          : 1.4.0 (Scala 2.10 & 2.11)
    Play 2.5.x          : Not supported yet

Project-status: STABLE

See also archived versions.

This project is a module for Play framework 2 to package your apps into standard WAR packages. It can be used with Servlet 3.1, 3.0 and 2.5 containers (Tomcat 6/7/8, Jetty 7/8/9, JBoss 5/6/7/8, ...)

Why choosing WAR packaging when native Play 2 is a better deployment model (features and performances) ?

• Ops don't want to change their deployment model and still want to use WAR in your company
• SSL is available, easy to configure and well documented on JBoss, Tomcat, ... when SSL is newer on Play 2.1
• You need to add extra Servlet filters specific to your company (to handle SSO, ...)

You can trust this plugin because it is heavily tested, with hundreds of integration tests run on :

• several open-source application servers (Tomcat 6/7/8, Jetty 7/8/9)
• all versions of Play Framework 2.x

Other references built with Play 2 and Play2War:

• Factile (Survey platform)

What's new ?

See releases and changelog.

Features

Features		Native Play 2	Servlet engine
			3.1	3.0	2.4/2.5
Availability			P2W 1.2+
Performances		+++	++	+	-
HTTP	Asynchronous request processing
	Web Socket		Not available yet
Container	Data sources	Built-in (Bone CP)	Built-in (Bone CP) Support external DataSource without JTA
	Applications deployed at root context Eg: http://myhost/
	Applications deployed at sub-context Eg: http://myhost/mySubAppContext	Play 2.0.x : Play 2.1.x and more :

Server compatibility

Servlet engine	Server	In your company	Public PaaS
Servlet 3.1	Tomcat 8		TBD
	Jetty 9.1		TBD
	JBoss/Wildfly 8	TBD	TBD
	Glassfish 4	TBD	TBD
Servlet 3.0	Tomcat 7
	Jetty 8
	Jetty 9.0		TBD
	JBoss 7.0		Demo @Cloudbees Need extra configuration when deploying
	JBoss 7.1		TBD (Openshift)
	Glassfish 3	TBD	TBD
	Websphere Community Edition 3.0		-
	Websphere 8.5 Liberty Profile		-
Servlet 2.5	Tomcat 6		-
	Jetty 7		-

The plugin may work on others containers, such as Weblogic (not tested yet).

Configuration

See Configuration.

Usage

See Usage.

Deployment

See Deployment.

FAQ

See FAQ.

Issues

Please file issues here: https://github.com/play2war/play2-war-plugin/issues.

Continous integration

Watch it in action here : https://play-war.ci.cloudbees.com/.

How to help ?

Discover how you can help the project.

Contributors

Ivan Meredith, Rossi Oddet, Sam Spycher, Naoki Takezoe, Quinn Slack, Eugene Platonov, László Zsolt Kustra, Yann Simon.

Licence

This software is licensed under the Apache 2 license, quoted below.

Copyright 2012 Damien Lecan (http://www.dlecan.com).

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this project except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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Versions not supported anymore

Play 2.0 -> 2.0.4   : 0.8.1
Play 2.0.5+         : 0.8.2
Play 2.1 -> 2.1.3   : 1.0.2
Play 2.1.4+         : 1.1.1