§Play Modules

This is a temporary location for listing modules, until there will be a location to register them on the Play website.

Blog posts describing the process of writing a module can be found on objectify.be.

§Airbrake.io notifier

• Website: http://teamon.github.com/play-airbrake/
• Documentation: https://github.com/teamon/play-airbrake/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Send exception notifications to airbrake.io

§Amazon SES module (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/Rhinofly/play-mailer
• Documentation: https://github.com/Rhinofly/play-mailer/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: SES (Simple Email Service) API wrapper for Play

§Amazon S3 module (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/Rhinofly/play-s3
• Documentation: https://github.com/Rhinofly/play-s3/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: S3 (Simple Storage Service) API wrapper for Play

§Amf module (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/Rhinofly/play-amf
• Documentation: https://github.com/Rhinofly/play-amf/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: AMF (ActionScript Message Format) support for Play

§Authentication and Authorization module (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/t2v/play20-auth
• Documentation(en): https://github.com/t2v/play20-auth/blob/master/README.md
• Documentation(ja): https://github.com/t2v/play20-auth/blob/master/README.ja.md
• Short description This module provides an authentication and authorization way
• Now also has 2.1-SNAPSHOT support: https://github.com/t2v/play20-auth/tree/play21

§Authenticity Token module

• Website: https://github.com/orefalo/play2-authenticitytoken
• Documentation: https://github.com/orefalo/play2-authenticitytoken/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Brings back play1 authenticity token - provides a way around CSRF attacks

§ClojureScript Plugin

• Website: https://bitbucket.org/jmhofer/play-clojurescript (docs, code)
• Short description: Compiles ClojureScript asset files to JavaScript

§Cloudfront module (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/mchv/play2-cloudfront
• Documentation: https://github.com/mchv/play2-cloudfront/blob/master/README.md
• Short description This module helps to integrate a play application with Cloudfront CDN.

§Currency Converter (Java)

• Website: https://github.com/blabluble/play-currency-converter-module
• Documentation: https://github.com/blabluble/play-currency-converter-module/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Currency converter for Play. It uses web services to get the current exchange rate.

§Deadbolt 2 Plugin

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/schaloner/deadbolt-2
• Short description: Deadbolt is an authorisation mechanism for defining access rights to certain controller methods or parts of a view using a simple AND/OR/NOT syntax

§DDSL Plugin - Dynamic Distributed Service Locator

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/mbknor/ddsl-play2-module
• Short description: DDSL - Dynamic Distributed Service Locator - Makes it really easy to create your own dynamic “private cloud” in-house or on EC2/Joyent etc using ZooKeeper

§Dust Plugin

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins/tree/master/dust
• Short description: provides support for the dust client side template language

§Elasticsearch

• Website: https://github.com/cleverage/play2-elasticsearch
• Documentation: https://github.com/cleverage/play2-elasticsearch/blob/master/README.md
• Repository: http://cleverage.github.io/play2-elasticsearch/releases/
• Short description Indexing/Requesting Object in Embedded ElasticSearch Server or remote(s) Node(s).

§Ember.js

• Website: https://github.com/krumpi/play-emberjs
• Documentation: https://github.com/krumpi/play-emberjs/blob/master/README.md
• Short description Supports precompilation of ember.js/handlebars templates.

§funcy - Page Driven Functional Tests (Java)

• Website: https://github.com/joergviola/funcy
• Documentation: https://github.com/joergviola/funcy/blob/master/README.md
• Repository: http://www.joergviola.de/releases/
• Short description Simplifies writing functional test using Page Driver classes.

§Geolocation (Java)

• Website: https://github.com/blabluble/play-geolocation-module
• Documentation: https://github.com/blabluble/play-geolocation-module/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Module for retrieve Geolocation data based on IP.

§Google’s HTML Compressor (Java and Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/mohiva/play-html-compressor
• Documentation: https://github.com/mohiva/play-html-compressor/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Google’s HTML Compressor for Play 2.

§Groovy Templates plugin

• Website: https://github.com/manuelbernhardt/play2-groovy-templates
• Documentation: https://github.com/manuelbernhardt/play2-groovy-templates/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: This module brings the Groovy templates engine of Play 1 to Play 2.

§Groovy Templates plugin - gt-engine-play2

• Website: https://github.com/mbknor/gt-engine-play2
• Documentation: https://github.com/mbknor/gt-engine-play2/blob/master/README.markdown
• Short description: This module brings the Groovy Template engine from play 1 to Play. It uses gt-engine which is used by the Play 1 module “Faster Groovy Templates” http://www.playframework.com/modules/fastergt
• Samples: https://github.com/mbknor/gt-engine-play2/tree/master/samples

§Guice Plugin (Java and Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins/tree/master/guice
• Short description: provides DI via Guice

§HTML5 Tags module (Java and Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/loicdescotte/Play2-HTML5Tags
• Documentation: https://github.com/loicdescotte/Play2-HTML5Tags/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: This tags add client side validation capabilities, based on model contraints (e.g required, email pattern, max|min lentgh…) and specific input fields (date, telephone number, url…) to Play templates

§InputValidator (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/seratch/inputvalidator/tree/master/play-module
• Short description: provides a simple validation API for Play

§JackRabbit Plugin (Java and Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): JackRabbit Plugin GitHub
• Short description: Apache JackRabbit Plugin for play! framework 2

§Japid module

• Website: https://github.com/branaway/japid42
• Documentation: https://github.com/branaway/japid42
• Short description: This module provides Japid java templates for Play

§JsMessages

• Website: https://github.com/julienrf/play-jsmessages
• Short description: Allows to compute localized messages on client side.

§JSON minification Plugin

• Website: https://github.com/joscha/play-jsonminify
• Documentation: https://github.com/joscha/play-jsonminify/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Allows JSON asset pretty-printing and minification

§JSONP filter

• Website: https://github.com/julienrf/play-jsonp-filter
• Short description: Enables JSONP on your existing HTTP API.

§Manual Dependency Injection Plugin (Java and Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins
• Short description: provides DI via manual injection

§Memcached Plugin

• Website: https://github.com/mumoshu/play2-memcached
• Short description: provides a memcached based cache implementation

§MongoDB Jackson Mapper Plugin (Java)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/vznet/play-mongo-jackson-mapper
• Short description: provides managed MongoDB access and object mapping using Jackson annotations

§MongoDB Jongo Plugin (Java)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/alexanderjarvis/play-jongo
• Short description: provides managed MongoDB access and object mapping using Jongo

§MongoDB Morphia Plugin (Java)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/leodagdag/play2-morphia-plugin
• Short description: provides managed MongoDB access and object mapping via Morphia

§MongoDB Salat, Casbah Plugin (Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/leon/play-salat
• Short description: provides managed MongoDB access and object mapping using Salat and Casbah

§Mountable routing

• Website: http://teamon.github.com/play-navigator/
• Documentation: https://github.com/teamon/play-navigator/blob/master/README.md
• Description: http://codetunes.com/2012/05/09/scala-dsl-tutorial-writing-web-framework-router

§Mustache (Java,Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/julienba/play2-mustache
• Documentation: https://github.com/julienba/play2-mustache
• Short description: Mustache template support

§Native Packaging Module

• Website: https://github.com/kryptt/play2-native-packager-plugin
• Documentation: https://github.com/kryptt/play2-native-packager-plugin/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Allow to package Play! 2.x applications as a standard system package (deb/rpm/msi).

§NINA (Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/dontcare4free/nina
• Short description: provides a typesafe way to query SQL databases with a special emphasis on selective querying

§Origami: OrientDB O/G Mapper (Java and Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): Origami Plugin GitHub
• Short description: Origami plugin is a Java O/G mapper for the OrientDB with Play! Framework 2.

§PDF module (Java)

• Website: https://github.com/joergviola/play20-pdf
• Documentation: https://github.com/joergviola/play20-pdf/blob/master/README.md
• Repository: http://www.joergviola.de/releases/
• Short description Generate PDF output from HTML templates

§Play! Authenticate (Java)

• Website: http://joscha.github.com/play-authenticate/
• Documentation: https://github.com/joscha/play-authenticate/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: A highly customizable authentication module for Play

§play2-sprites

• Website: https://github.com/koofr/play2-sprites/
• Short description: play2-sprites is an sbt plugin that generates sprites from images.

§play-jaxrs (Java)

• Website (docs, sample): play-jaxrs
• Short description: a JAX-RS router plugin for play java apps

§Play-pac4j (Java and Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/leleuj/play-pac4j
• Documentation: https://github.com/leleuj/play-pac4j/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Play client in Scala and Java which supports OAuth/CAS/OpenID/HTTP authentication and user profile retrieval

§Play Plovr Plugin

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/benmccann/play-plovr-plugin
• Short description: Adds Closure Compiler and Closure Library support to Play

§Play-Slick

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/freekh/play-slick
• Short description: This plugin makes Slick a first-class citizen of Play.

§Pusher

• Website: https://github.com/tindr/Play2Pusher
• Short description: Easily interact with the Pusher Service within
  your Play application.

§Qunit (Java)

• Website: https://github.com/gcusnieux/play20-qunit
• Documentation: https://github.com/gcusnieux/play20-qunit
• Short description: JavaScript unit test suite

§Redis Plugin (Java and Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins
• Short description: provides a redis based cache implementation, also lets you use Redis specific APIs

§Swaggerkit (Scala)

• Website (docs, sample, code): https://github.com/eamelink/swaggerkit
• Short description: Helps you expose a Swagger specification of a JSON REST API built with Play in a clean way.

§Emailer Plugin (Java and Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins
• Short description: provides an emailer based on apache commons-email

§Roy Compiled Asset Plugin (Ray)

• Website: https://github.com/pufuwozu/ray
• Blog post: http://brianmckenna.org/blog/ray
• Short description: compiles Roy files to JavaScript

§Sass Plugin

• Website: https://github.com/jlitola/play-sass
• Short description: Asset handling for Sass files

§ScalikeJDBC Plugin (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/seratch/scalikejdbc/tree/master/scalikejdbc-play-plugin
• Short description: provides yet another database access API for Play

§SecureSocial (Java and Scala)

• Website: http://www.securesocial.ws/
• Short description: An authentication module supporting OAuth, OAuth2, OpenID, Username/Password and custom authentication schemes.

§Silhouette (Scala)

• Website: http://silhouette.mohiva.com/
• Documentation: https://github.com/mohiva/play-silhouette/wiki
• Short description: An authentication library that supports several authentication methods, including OAuth1, OAuth2, OpenID, Credentials or custom authentication schemes.

§Sitemap Generator (Java)

• Website: https://github.com/blabluble/play-sitemap-module
• Documentation: https://github.com/blabluble/play-sitemap-module/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Automatic sitemaps generator for Play

§Snapshot Plugin (Java and Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/vznet/play-snapshot
• Short description: provides a hash bang snapshot functionality using HtmlUnit, as described by Google here

§socket.io.play (scala only, pre-alpha)

• Website: https://github.com/milliondreams/socket.io.play
• Documentation: https://github.com/milliondreams/socket.io.play/blob/master/README.md

§Spring Module

• Website: https://github.com/wsargent/play-2.0-spring-module
• Documentation: https://github.com/wsargent/play-2.0-spring-module/blob/master/README.md
• Short description: Updated version of the original Spring module for Play

§Stateless client authentication (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/blendlabs/play20-stateless-auth
• Documentation: https://github.com/blendlabs/play20-stateless-auth/blob/master/README.md
• Short description Provides required and optional authentication without requiring server-side state (signed auth data is stored on the client)

§Statsd Plugin (Java and Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/vznet/play-statsd
• Short description: provides a statsd client

§Stylus Plugin

• Website: https://github.com/patiencelabs/play-stylus
• Short description: Support for Stylus CSS compilation

§TinkerPop Frames O/G Mapper Plugins (Java)

• Website (docs, sample): GitHub: Frames-Neo4j Plugin / Frames-OrientDB Plugin / Frames-Titan Plugin
• Short description: Java O/G mapper plugins for GraphDBs

§Typesafe util Plugin (Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins
• Short description: provides request header based security and syntactic sugar to deal with plugins

§Typesafe SbtGoodies Plugin

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins/tree/master/sbtgoodies
• Short description: provides extra sbt commands

§TypeScript Plugin

• Website: https://github.com/mumoshu/play2-typescript
• Short description: Asset handling for TypeScript files

§WAR Module

• Website: https://github.com/dlecan/play2-war-plugin
• Documentation: https://github.com/dlecan/play2-war-plugin/blob/develop/README.md
• Short description: Allow to package Play! 2.x applications into standard WAR packages.

§XForward module

• Website: https://github.com/olsego/play2-xforward
• Documentation: https://github.com/olsego/play2-xforward/blob/master/Readme.md
• Short description: This module brings back the missing Proxy forwarding settings from Play1.

§XWiki Rendering module (Scala)

• Website: http://literalice.github.com/play-xwiki-rendering/
• Documentation: https://github.com/literalice/play-xwiki-rendering/
• Short description: XWiki Rendering Framework integration for Play

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