Using WebSockets with Play Framework 2.1.0
As odd as this may seem to some of you, I have been creating an enterprise web application using the Play Framework and the full typesafe stack, including Scala and Akka. It doesn’t surprise me,...
View ArticleBuilding Play Framework Applications behind a Corporate Firewall
When you’re sitting at home using your Mac or your Windows computer and you’re the master of your domain, everything is good. You control your firewall rules, you control which ports are blocked and if...
View ArticleImplementing an Asynchronous Repository with Akka Actors
I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to work on an enterprise LOB application that uses the Typesafe stack – Play Framework using Scala and Akka. One of the things that I’ve noticed with application...
View ArticleThe Futures Have Arrived
As you may know, I’ve been working on building a fairly complex enterprise LOB application using Play, Scala, and Akka. When I started, I had a rudimentary understanding of Akka and Play, and I’d done...
View ArticleUsing JSON Inception in the Play Framework with Scala 2.10
The other day I was lamenting the fact that every time I made a tiny little change to the case classes that I use for reading/writing Ajax requests from the JavaScript client code for my web...
View ArticleAccessing Neo4j from Play Framework 2.1 with Web Service Futures
As you may have noticed, I’ve recently been doing a little bit of talking about Neo4j and graph databases. A database on its own is a fantastic thing, but it doesn’t do anybody much good if the...
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