Installing
To run the Play framework, you need a 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 just 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 java and javac in the current path (enter java -version and javac -version to check).
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. If you’re on UNIX, make sure that the play script is runnable (otherwise simply do a chmod +x play). That’s all.
From a shell, try to launch the play help command. If everything is properly installed, you should see the very basic help:
