# Play 2.0 Modules

> This is a temporary location for listing modules, until there will be a location to register them on the Play website.

> Blog posts describing the process of writing a module can be found on [objectify.be](http://www.objectify.be/wordpress/?p=363) and [developer.vz.net](http://developer.vz.net/2012/03/16/writing-a-play-2-0-module/)

## Authentication and Authorization module (Scala)

* **Website:** [https://github.com/t2v/play20-auth]
* **Documentation(en):** [https://github.com/t2v/play20-auth/blob/master/README.md]
* **Documentation(ja):** [https://github.com/t2v/play20-auth/blob/master/README.ja.md]
* **Short description** This module provides an authentication and authorization way

## Authenticity Token module

* **Website:** [https://github.com/orefalo/play2-authenticitytoken](https://github.com/orefalo/play2-authenticitytoken)
* **Documentation:** [https://github.com/orefalo/play2-authenticitytoken/blob/master/README.md](https://github.com/orefalo/play2-authenticitytoken/blob/master/README.md)
* **Short description:** Brings back play1 authenticity token - provides a way around CSRF attacks

## Deadbolt 2 Plugin
* **Website (docs, sample):** [https://github.com/schaloner/deadbolt-2](https://github.com/schaloner/deadbolt-2)
* **Short description:** Deadbolt is an authorisation mechanism for defining access rights to certain controller methods or parts of a view using a simple AND/OR/NOT syntax

## Dust Plugin
* **Website (docs, sample):** [https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins/tree/master/dust](https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins/tree/master/dust)
* **Short description:** provides support for the dust client side template language

## Groovy Templates plugin

* **Website:** [https://github.com/manuelbernhardt/play2-groovy-templates](https://github.com/manuelbernhardt/play2-groovy-templates)
* **Documentation:** [https://github.com/manuelbernhardt/play2-groovy-templates/blob/master/README.md](https://github.com/manuelbernhardt/play2-groovy-templates/blob/master/README.md)
* **Short description:** This module brings the Groovy templates engine of Play 1 to Play 2. 

## Groovy Templates plugin - gt-engine-play2

* **Website:** [https://github.com/mbknor/gt-engine-play2](https://github.com/mbknor/gt-engine-play2)
* **Documentation:** [https://github.com/mbknor/gt-engine-play2/blob/master/README.markdown](https://github.com/mbknor/gt-engine-play2/blob/master/README.markdown)
* **Short description:** This module brings the Groovy Template engine from play 1 to Play 2. It uses gt-engine which is used by the Play 1 module "Faster Groovy Templates" [http://www.playframework.org/modules/fastergt](http://www.playframework.org/modules/fastergt)
* **Samples:** [https://github.com/mbknor/gt-engine-play2/tree/master/samples](https://github.com/mbknor/gt-engine-play2/tree/master/samples)

## Guice Plugin (Java and Scala)
* **Website (docs, sample):** [https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins](https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins)
* **Short description:** provides DI via Guice

## HTML5 Tags module
* **Website:** [https://github.com/loicdescotte/Play2-HTML5Tags](https://github.com/loicdescotte/Play2-HTML5Tags)
* **Documentation:** [https://github.com/loicdescotte/Play2-HTML5Tags/blob/master/README.md](https://github.com/loicdescotte/Play2-HTML5Tags/blob/master/README.md)
* **Short description:** This tags add client side validation attributes (e.g required, regex pattern, max|min lentgh...) and specific input fields (date, email, url, telephone number,...) to Play 2.0 templates

## Japid module

* **Website:** [https://github.com/branaway/japid42](https://github.com/branaway/japid42)
* **Documentation:** [https://github.com/branaway/japid42](https://github.com/branaway/japid42)
* **Short description:** This module provides Japid java templates for play 2

## Manual Dependency Injection Plugin (Java and Scala)
* **Website (docs, sample):** [https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins](https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins)
* **Short description:** provides DI via manual injection

## MongoDB Jackson Mapper Plugin (Java)

* **Website (docs, sample):** [https://github.com/vznet/play-mongo-jackson-mapper](https://github.com/vznet/play-mongo-jackson-mapper)
* **Short description:** provides managed MongoDB access and object mapping using Jackson annotations

## MongoDB Salat, Casbah Plugin (Scala)
* **Website (docs, sample):** [https://github.com/leon/play-salat](https://github.com/leon/play-salat)
* **Short description:** provides managed MongoDB access and object mapping using Salat and Casbah 

## Play Mini (Java and Scala)
* **Website (docs, sample):** [https://github.com/typesafehub/play2-mini](https://github.com/typesafehub/play2-mini)
* **Short description:** uses play as an HTTP library (in a standard SBT project)

## Redis Plugin  (Java and Scala)
* **Website (docs, sample):** [https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins](https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins)
* **Short description:** provides a redis based cache implementation, also lets you use Redis specific APIs

## Emailer Plugin  (Java and Scala)
* **Website (docs, sample):** [https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins](https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins)
* **Short description:** provides an emailer based on apache commons-email

## Roy Compiled Asset Plugin (Ray)
* **Website:** [https://github.com/pufuwozu/ray](https://github.com/pufuwozu/ray)
* **Blog post:** [http://brianmckenna.org/blog/ray](http://brianmckenna.org/blog/ray)
* **Short description:** compiles [Roy](http://roy.brianmckenna.org/) files to JavaScript

## Snapshot Plugin (Java and Scala)
* **Website (docs, sample):** [https://github.com/vznet/play-snapshot](https://github.com/vznet/play-snapshot)
* **Short description:** provides a hash bang snapshot functionality using HtmlUnit, as described by Google [here](https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/html-snapshot)

## Statsd Plugin (Java and Scala)
* **Website (docs, sample):** [https://github.com/vznet/play-statsd](https://github.com/vznet/play-statsd)
* **Short description:** provides a statsd client

## Typesafe util Plugin (Scala)
* **Website (docs, sample):** [https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins](https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins)
* **Short description:** provides request header based security and syntactic sugar to deal with plugins

## Typesafe SbtGoodies Plugin 
* **Website (docs, sample):** [https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins/sbtgoodies](https://github.com/typesafehub/play-plugins/sbtgoodies)
* **Short description:** provides extra sbt commands

## WAR Plugin

* **Website:** [https://github.com/dlecan/play2-war-plugin](https://github.com/dlecan/play2-war-plugin)
* **Documentation:** [https://github.com/dlecan/play2-war-plugin/blob/develop/README.md](https://github.com/dlecan/play2-war-plugin/blob/develop/README.md)
* **Short description:** Allow to package Play! 2.x applications into standard WAR packages.

## XForward module

* **Website:** [https://github.com/orefalo/play2-xforward](https://github.com/orefalo/play2-xforward)
* **Documentation:** [https://github.com/orefalo/play2-xforward/blob/master/Readme.md](https://github.com/orefalo/play2-xforward/blob/master/Readme.md)
* **Short description:** This module brings back the missing Proxy forwarding settings from Play1.

## Spring Module 

* **Website:** [https://github.com/scott-phillips/Spring4Play2](https://github.com/scott-phillips/Spring4Play2)
* **Documentation:** [https://github.com/scott-phillips/Spring4Play2/blob/master/README.markdown](https://github.com/scott-phillips/Spring4Play2/blob/master/README.markdown)
* **Short description:** Updated version of the original Spring module for Play 2.0

## JsMessages

* **Wesite:** [https://github.com/julienrf/play-jsmessages](https://github.com/julienrf/play-jsmessages)
* **Short description:** Allows to compute localized messages on client side.

## Memcached Plugin

* **Website:** [https://github.com/mumoshu/play2-memcached](https://github.com/mumoshu/play2-memcached)
* **Short description:** provides a memcached based cache implementation

## Stylus Plugin

* **Website:** [https://github.com/knuton/play-stylus](https://github.com/knuton/play-stylus)
* **Short description:** Support for [Stylus](https://github.com/learnboost/stylus) CSS compilation


## ScalikeJDBC Plugin (Scala)

* **Website:** [https://github.com/seratch/scalikejdbc-play-plugin](https://github.com/seratch/scalikejdbc-play-plugin)
* **Short description:** provides yet another database access API for Play20