§Netty Server Backend
Prior to Play 2.6.x, Play used the Netty server backend as the default. In 2.6.x, the default backend was changed to Akka HTTP, but you can still manually select the Netty backend server in your project.
§Usage
To use the Netty server backend you first need to disable the Akka HTTP server and add the Netty server plugin to your project:
lazy val root = (project in file("."))
.enablePlugins(PlayScala, PlayNettyServer)
.disablePlugins(PlayAkkaHttpServer)
Now Play should automatically select the Netty server for running in dev mode, prod and in tests.
§Manually selecting the Netty server
If for some reason you have both the Akka HTTP server and the Netty HTTP server on your classpath, you’ll need to manually select it. This can be done using the play.server.provider system property, for example, in dev mode:
run -Dplay.server.provider=play.core.server.NettyServerProvider
§Verifying that the Netty server is running
When the Netty server is running it will tag all requests with a tag called HTTP_SERVER with a value of netty. The Netty backend will not have a value for this tag.
Action { request =>
assert(request.tags.get("HTTP_SERVER") == Some("netty"))
...
}
§Configuring Netty
See the SettingsNetty page.