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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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Preface 1. Building a Web Service FREE CHAPTER 2. Persisting Data and Testing 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

Application deployment


Before making your application publicly available, you should choose a unique secret key to use to sign the session cookie. Keep this key a secret so that your users won't be able to forge a fake session.

The application secret key is defined by the application.secret configuration property. By default, the template sets it to changeme. Note that if you try to run your application in the production mode while your secret key still has the changeme value, Play throws an exception.

Deploying to your dedicated infrastructure

We already saw how you can run your application in production mode using the start sbt command. This command compiles your code, eventually executes the assets pipeline if you use it, and starts the Play HTTP server in a new JVM.

However, the start command is executed within the sbt shell, which means that you actually have two running JVMs: one for sbt itself and one for your application. In addition to the start command, there also is a stage command...

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