Intro to Play Framework &

Modern Java Web App Development

Josh Padnick
Desert Code Camp 2013.2
November 9, 2013
Todays Talk

Java Web App Development Today

Modern Web App Development

Meet Play Framework

Build Stuff!

Founder & Chief Innovation Ofcer at Omedix

10+ years of web app development

Special interest in scalable, enterprise, web-based

applications using Java & open source
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Lots of Time Waiting for Server Redeploys
SOURCE FOR INSIGHT: The Play Framework at LinkedIn: Productivity and Performance at Scale by Yevjeniy Brikman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z3h4Uv9YbE

SOURCE FOR GRAPHIC: http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/java-ee-productivity-report-2011/#redeploy_times
Long, Ugly Error Messages
SOURCE: FOR INSIGHT: The Play Framework at LinkedIn: Productivity and Performance at Scale by Yevjeniy Brikman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z3h4Uv9YbE

SOURCE FOR GRAPHIC: http://ptrthomas.wordpress.com/2006/06/06/java-call-stack-from-http-upto-jdbc-as-a-picture/


MVC Action
AOP TX Proxy
Business Logic
DAO
Spring-Hibernate
Hibernate
JDBC
Spring WebFIow
Acegi
Spring MVC
Tomcat / JBoss
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

<servlet>
<servlet-name>mvc</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<!-- we'll use AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext instead of the default XmlWebApplicationContext... -->
<init-param>
<param-name>contextClass</param-name>
<param-value>org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext</param-value>
</init-param>

<!-- ... and tell it which class contains the configuration -->
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>com.zt.helloWeb.init.WebappConfig</param-value>
</init-param>

<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>

</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>mvc</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

</web-app>
DefaultServletHandler
Crazy XML Conguration
SOURCE FOR INSIGHT: The Play Framework at LinkedIn: Productivity and Performance at Scale by Yevjeniy Brikman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z3h4Uv9YbE
Bean Failures
org.omg.CORBA.OBJECT_NOT_EXIST
SOURCE FOR GRAPHIC: Beginning Java EE 6 Platform with Glasssh 3 by Antonio Goncalves, Page 5.
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Clunky Road to
RESTful URLs
WEB.XML
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>springmvc</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

CONTROLLER.JAVA
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/people")
public class PeopleController {

@RequestMapping(entrypoint/{collectionName}, method=RequestMethod.GET)
public @ResponseBody String getPeople() {
return GsonFactory.getInstance().toJson(LookupDao.getInstance().getPeople());
}

@RequestMapping(value="{id}", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public @ResponseBody String getPerson(@PathVariable String id) {
return GsonFactory.getInstance().toJson(LookupDao.getInstance().getPerson(id));
}
}
A Lot of Complexity!
I just want to write working software!
Is this the architecture we would create today?
The root of the problem
Impedance Mismatch between
HTTP and Java EE!
RESTful URLs vs. Java Servlets Spec
Impedance Mismatch
Stateless HTTP vs. Stateful EJBs
SOURCE: http://cscie12.dce.harvard.edu/lecture_notes/2011/20110504/handout.html
SOURCE: Beginning Java EE 6 Platform with Glasssh 3 by Antonio Goncalves, Page 206.
Impedance Mismatch
Impedance Mismatch
Code & Refresh vs. WAR Deployment
Modern Web App Development
Buzzwords!
HTML5 & Javascript
MVVM Frameworks
Mobile
NoSQL
Real-Time
Big Data
Asynchronous
Immutability
Connected Devices
Reactive Software
http://www.ReactiveManifesto.org/
The Reactive Manifesto
Up to now the usual way to describe this type of application has
been to use a mix of technical and business buzzwords; asynchronous,
non-blocking, real-time, highly-available, loosely coupled, scalable, fault-
tolerant, concurrent, reactive, event-driven, push instead of pull,
distributed, low latency, high throughput, etc. This does not help
communication, quite the contrary, it greatly hinders it.
SOURCE: http://typesafe.com/blog/why_do_we_need_a_reactive_manifesto
Jonas Bonr
Reactive Software
SOURCE: http://www.ReactiveManifesto.org/
Meet Play Framework
Goal: Performance + Productivity
Performance
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SOURCE: http://typesafe.com/blog/webinar-a-java-developers-primer-to-the-typesafe-platform
No More JEE Container
SOURCE: Play for Java by Nicolas Leroux and Sietse de Kaper
Focused on Developer Productivity

Live code changes when you refresh the browser

More friendly error messages directly in browser

Type safety in the templates

Cool console & build tools

Designed for the Modern Web

RESTful by default

Auto-compile LESS and CoffeeScript les

JSON is a rst-class citizen

Websockets, other HTTP Streaming Support

Stateless and Built for Scale

Forces every aspect of your app to be stateless

Non-Blocking I/O

Well-suited for real-time

What exactly is it, though?
SOURCE: Play for Java by Nicolas Leroux and Sietse de Kaper
What exactly is it, though?
Integrated HTTP Server
JBoss Netty (Non-Blocking IO)
Concurrent, Distributed, Fault-Tolerant
Background Processing
Akka
Build System &
Console
SBT
Java Virtual Machine
Template Engine, HTTP Request/Response Processing, Integrated
Cache, RESTful Routing Engine, Asset Compilation,
Internationalization, Testing Tools
Play Framework
eBean / Anorm
BoneCP
H2 Database
Lots of libraries
Of course, nothings perfect
1. You can mostly avoid Scala, but not completely
(of course, Scala itself is pretty cool)
2. For advanced build logic, SBT has a steep learning curve
3. Template system works well, but sometimes the functional
paradigm can feel awkward
Lets around!
Intro Stuff
1. Download and install
2. Play Console
3. Controllers
4. URL Routing
5. Templates
Intro Stuff
1. Download and install
2. Play Console
3. Controllers
4. URL Routing
5. Templates
Intro Stuff
1. Download and install
2. Play Console
3. Controllers
4. URL Routing
5. Templates
Intro Stuff
1. Download and install
2. Play Console
3. Controllers
4. URL Routing
5. Templates
Intro Stuff
1. Download and install
2. Play Console
3. Controllers
4. URL Routing
5. Templates
Intro Stuff
1. Download and install
2. Play Console
3. Controllers
4. URL Routing
5. Templates
Lets Build Something
in the Time Remaining
So what did you like best today?

Well take some votes and show the results real-time

Learning Play Framework

I preferred the books to the documentation

For ofcial documentation, best formatting is on

playframework.com. Latest content is on github
(https://github.com/playframework/playframework/tree/master/documentation/manual)

Community itself is pretty great

Google Group is great

Lots of questions on Stack Overow

Check Out TypeSafe Activator
Q&A