ProductionDist

Creating a standalone version

It is also possible to create a fully packaged an self containend version of your application.

Using the dist command

The `dist command creates a zip file containing all the application dependencies including Play itself. It is a "ready to deploy" package that you can run on any server (the only dependency is a Java runtime).

[My first application] $ dist

It generates the zip file in the dist directory.

Running the standalone application

The dist command generates a start.sh script launching the Java runtime with the proper options and classpath. Of course it is not required to use this script and you can launch Java the plain old way if needed.

Note that you can specify more Java options to this script:

$ ./start.sh -Dplay.http=80 -Dhttp.address=127.0.0.1