How to add auto-update the Version Number of a Play Framework 2.X Project

I wanted to have Version numbers that get automatically updated when I want to release a new version, so I…

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It’s easy to document your Play Framework REST API with Swagger

This post orig­i­nally ran on http://​swag​ger​.io (7/30/2015) I hav­ing been using Play Frame­work as a Java-based, lightning-fast REST back­end frame­work…

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How to use Hibernate to generate a DDL script from your Play! Framework project

Ok, so you have been using the hiber­nate prop­erty name=“hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto” value=“update” to con­tin­u­ously update your data­base schema, but now you…

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Programming a simple slot machine game using Java

No mat­ter how sim­ple or com­plex the game is, Java can do the job! On this post, let’s take a look…

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How to implement a Session Timeout in Play Framework 2

If you fol­low the Play Frame­work 2 guide for imple­ment­ing authen­ti­ca­tion: http://​www​.playframe​work​.com/​d​o​c​u​m​e​n​t​a​t​i​o​n​/​2​.​2​.​2​/​J​a​v​a​G​u​i​de4 — you will notice that there is no…

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How to configure an SSL Certificate with Play Framework for https

I spent hours try­ing to get this to work, and in the end, then prob­lem was that I did not…

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How to use Reflection to Document your Data Model based on JPA Annotations

So using JPA, Hiber­nate or EBeans is cool when you can just anno­tate your Java classes, but haven’t you always…

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Using twitter4j with Play! Framework and Secure Social is this easy

Dur­ing yesterday’s per­sonal Hackathon, I started a project which I might intro­duce here some­time. But the coolest rev­e­la­tion was (again)…

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