Play Framework Essentials

The content of the book is great but the kindle format is hard to work with. The lack of navigable list of contents makes browsing of the book's chapters cumbersome. I was expecting much better usability and I wish I had gone for a hard cover.

- Concise reading without long stories.- Short code snippets cover just the important parts of solution.- Includes everything important like session authentication, CSRF prevention and others. (I have not found these topics in few other books.)

Making a web application can be complex and Play tries to help simplify the process. Richard-Foy starts with the basics of explaining the architecture of such an application - from the client browser to the web servers. Play offers the choice of java or Scala for coding. Java is much better known to many.Like Ruby on Rails and other languages, there is a standard projects layout for the files. So you need to know for Play that source files go under app/ and test files in test/, for example. As a practical matter, if you get deep into a project, you may or rather will need to manually go into such directories and add or remove files for debugging or other development needs.The book also has good advice on testing whatever web application you make. One such is to use Selenium WebDriver which lets you write automated tests for a browser. Perhaps you have wondered about how nice this would be, well it has been done. You can now define numerous unit tests for your user interface and just run these all from one simple command.A more advanced topic is how to handle long running requests from the browser. One solution is to use Ajax, while another is to use WebSockets. Either gives you greater interactivity from the user standpoint while she is running her browser. It lets your app directly push changes to the browser. A fundamental qualitative enhancement.

"Play Framework Essentials" provides a rapid introduction to the Play Framework. In 7 chapters and under 200 pages, "Play Framework Essentials" introduces Play Framework and covers details such as building and exposing web services with Play, building web application clients that integrate with Play, persisting data from a Play application to a relational database, testing a Play application, refactoring Play application code, and deploying a Play application. The book also describes how developers can take advantage of Play's concurrency model, security support, internationalization support, and caching support."Play Framework Essentials" provides numerous code listings. These are black font on white background with no line numbers and no color syntax. The examples demonstrate applying Play in both Java and Scala programming languages and explains the relatively small number of features that are only available in one language or the other. There are also several graphics in the book that are mostly grayscale but one or two of them has some color in it.Although there are fewer than 200 pages of substantive text in "Play Framework Essentials," the book still manages to cover a significant amount of technical detail. This is accomplished by spending very little time covering historical or background details of the Play Framework and jumping right into technical discussion.

I love this book. I tried couple of play framework books on safari. I found that either they were were old and examples were obsolete or they were very poorly written.Finally I found this book and it is very recent. all examples work. nothing is obsolete.I also find that the book is comprehensive and well written.

I don't feel that I had a nice experience with the book. Easy topics were nicely explained, but that apart, everything was tricky, maybe out of date?, maybe is that appear block of codes but no where you have to put that code?....confusing.

Excellent book with a lot of examples and tips. Provides a continuous learning form the beginning in a medium technical language which helps understanding everything, even if we are new at PLAY.Recomend it for sure. For deep knowledge the Cookbook is also a mandatory book to summarize, review and learn some new tricks.

dosnt give a proper introduction on play.not suitable for beginner neither expert