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Launch Play in Eclipse

Posted on April 4, 2014 by abrahamfarris — Leave a comment

Sometimes its easier to watch the eclipse console instead of alt-tab into the shell window. Fortunately you can use the external tool configuration to launch play. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21730926/redirect-play-framework-2-output-to-eclipse-console/22786093#22786093 The only problem is the console does not recognize control-d so you have…

Play Framework 2 Todolist with JPA and PostgreSQL

Posted on February 12, 2014 by abrahamfarris — Leave a comment

In order to learn more about creating a Play application with JPA and PostgreSQL, I followed the todolist application instructions: http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.2.x/JavaTodoList The key difference from the original tutorial is I changed the backend to use JPA with PostgreSQL instead of…

Create a new play project for eclipse

Posted on February 1, 2014 by abrahamfarris — Leave a comment

Create a new parent directory for your project Go to the new directory in your console dos/terminal Enter play new appname > Enter > 1 or 2 Enter cd appname Enter play Once the play project is loaded, enter eclipse After…