Instant Play Framework Starter

Top features you need to know about

We will develop a sample application in Java and Scala, which will accompany us throughout this book. First, we will take a close look at the anatomy of a Play application. Then we will deal with user input. Finally, we will explore the different ways to talk to a database with Play.

1 – Designing a Play application

In this section we will learn the basics of how to implement the MVC components of a typical Play application.

Introducing our sample application

Our sample here is a prototype of a phone book application. We are maintaining our contacts with it, where the contacts have a name and a phone number. We are able to add, remove, and edit contacts. Additionally, we will implement a search for contacts.

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