Installing
To run the Play framework, you need JDK 6 or later. If you wish to build Play from source, you will need the Git source control client to fetch the source code.
If you are using MacOS, Java is built-in. If you are using Linux, make sure to use either the Sun JDK or OpenJDK (and not gcj which is the default Java command on many Linux distros). If you are using Windows, just download and install the latest JDK package.
Be sure to have the java and javac commands in the current path (you can check this by typing java -version and javac -version at the shell prompt).
Download the Play 2.0 beta binary package and extract the archive.
For convenience, you should add the framework installation directory to your system PATH. On UNIX system you should add something like that somewhere:
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/play20On windows system it should be set somewhere in the global environment variables.
If you’re on UNIX, make sure that the play script is runnable (otherwise do a
chmod +x play).
From a shell, launch the play help command.
$ play helpIf everything is properly installed, you should see the basic help:
To benefit from the latest improvements and bug fixes after the initial beta release, you may want to compile Play 2.0 from sources. You’ll need a Git client to fetch the sources.
From the shell, first checkout the Play 2.0 sources:
$ git clone git://github.com/playframework/Play20.gitThen go to the Play20/framework directory and launch the build script to enter the sbt build console:
$ cd Play20/framework
$ ./buildOnce in the sbt console, run build-repository to compile and build everything. This will also create the local Ivy repository containing all of the required dependencies.
Note that you don’t need to install sbt yourself: Play 2.0 embeds its own version (currently sbt 0.11.0).
If you want to make changes to the code you can use compile and publish-local to rebuild the framework.