§Play 2.0 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 and developer.vz.net

§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

§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

§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

§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

§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 2. It uses gt-engine which is used by the Play 1 module “Faster Groovy Templates” http://www.playframework.org/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
• Short description: provides DI via Guice

§HTML5 Tags module

• 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 attributes (e.g required, regex pattern, max|min lentgh…) and specific input fields (date, email, url, telephone number,…) to Play 2.0 templates

§Japid module

• Website: https://github.com/branaway/japid42
• Documentation: https://github.com/branaway/japid42
• Short description: This module provides Japid java templates for play 2

§Manual Dependency Injection Plugin (Java and Scala)

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

§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 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

§Play Mini (Java and Scala)

• Website (docs, sample): https://github.com/typesafehub/play2-mini
• Short description: uses play as an HTTP library (in a standard SBT project)

§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

§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

§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

§Statsd Plugin (Java and Scala)

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

§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/sbtgoodies
• Short description: provides extra sbt commands

§WAR Plugin

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

§Spring Module

• Website: https://github.com/scott-phillips/Spring4Play2
• Documentation: https://github.com/scott-phillips/Spring4Play2/blob/master/README.markdown
• Short description: Updated version of the original Spring module for Play 2.0

§JsMessages

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

§Memcached Plugin

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

§Stylus Plugin

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

§ScalikeJDBC Plugin (Scala)

• Website: https://github.com/seratch/scalikejdbc-play-plugin
• Short description: provides yet another database access API for Play20

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