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Play Framework essentials

You're reading from   Play Framework essentials An intuitive guide to creating easy-to-build scalable web applications using the Play framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783982400
Length 200 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Web Service 2. Persisting Data and Testing FREE CHAPTER 3. Turning a Web Service into a Web Application 4. Integrating with Client-side Technologies 5. Reactively Handling Long-running Requests 6. Leveraging the Play Stack – Security, Internationalization, Cache, and the HTTP Client 7. Scaling Your Codebase and Deploying Your Application Index

Chapter 2. Persisting Data and Testing

In this chapter, you will see how you can write executable specifications for your web service and how Play can integrate mainstream data persistence technologies like RDMSes or document stores. More precisely, you will see how to perform the following:

  • Write and run unit tests
  • Simulate HTTP requests and inspect returned HTTP responses
  • Persist data using an RDBMS
  • Use an in-memory database for development
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Play Framework essentials
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