Introduction to Play

Dynamic Web Applications

The applications to date have been static - essentially a collecting of individual web pages. For more sophisticated web site we need to move to creating web applications. This will require a shift to considering the web site as an aggregating of fragments of web pages, composed and assembled by a program we also write.

Starting to Play

To build a web application we need a web framework. This will define the superstructure of our application and provide essential features to enable us to compose a complicated and efficient web application

Spacebook Skeleton

This is the starter web application you will build in this weeks lab. It will always have a very specific structure coupled with a tightly controller life cycle for handing requests.

Lab-06

Move the Spacebook application from the static site into the structure provide by the Play framework. This will require installation of the framework, creation of a starter project and incorporation of the work we have already completed in the last lab.