| 1 | # Play 2.0 current status |
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| 3 | Play 2.0 beta is a preview of the next major version of the Play framework, which integrates a brand new build system and an awesome asynchronous architecture, all with native Java and Scala support. |
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| 5 | You can start writing Play 2.0 applications right now with the beta version. It will give you an almost complete preview of the Play 2.0 experience: including the native Scala support, the new possibilities provided by the sbt integration, and the new controller/action API. |
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| 7 | Play 2.0 beta is not, however, ready to run production applications. |
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| 9 | ## Whatâs missing? |
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| 11 | We have worked hard to reach this beta version and are halfway to the final 2.0 version. The following features are the most important items we will be working on now. |
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| 13 | ### Support for more content types out of the box |
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| 15 | Currently we only support parsing classical URL form-encoded HTTP requests. We will add out-of-the-box support for major content types like JSON, XML and file uploads. |
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| 17 | ### Asynchronous support |
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| 19 | Play 2.0 is built from the ground up with reactiveness and optimised resource consumption in mind. We will add a public API for these features to make asynchronous reactive responses, streaming and WebSocket programming really simple. |
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| 21 | ### Testing |
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| 23 | We have basic [[specs | http://code.google.com/p/specs/]] and [[JUnit | http://www.junit.org/]] integration for now. We will add a better API for testing your web applications, either with unit tests or integration tests based on the [[Selenium WebDriver | http://seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver/]]. |
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| 25 | ### External HTTP libraries |
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| 27 | As in Play 1.x, Play 2.0 will provide out of the box integration with a powerful Web Service client, as well as OpenID and OAuth support. |
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| 29 | ### IDE integration |
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| 31 | Currently there is no simple way to integrate your Play 2.0 project in your favorite IDE - you must configure it yourself (or install an sbt plugin like [[sbt-idea | https://github.com/mpeltonen/sbt-idea]]). But we will be adding the cool 'eclipsify', 'netbeansify' and 'idealize' tasks to the Play console. |
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| 33 | ### WAR support |
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| 35 | We also plan to add WAR deployment support via Servlet 3.0. |
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| 37 | ### And of course, everything that makes a great release |
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| 39 | âŠÂ including more validators, binders, better documentation, tutorials and awesome sample applications. |
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