What is the recommended Application Server for Playframework 2.x deployment?

Question

I planned to use jBoss to deploy, manage and monitor playframework applications, but from https://github.com/play2war/play2-war-plugin/wiki/ConfigurationLoggingJBoss7 , I found jBoss and playframework doesn't play very well together.

From the official documentation , it only says Apache or Nginx can be used for HTTP server, but no application server is mentioned there. Does anyone have ideas about what would be a suiable application server for Playframework deployment? How about Apache Tomcat or GlassFish ?

Answer 1

You don't need any application server to run a Play 2.x application. The application can run stand alone, it internally uses Netty to handle the sockets, Akka to handle the concurrency etc.

Usually Apache or Nginx are used in front of a Play application to offload serving of static resources, HTTPS handling (both can be done directly in the application itself) and above all to allow public access to multiple applications on the same IP and port under different paths.

Answer 2

In Play 1.0 you could build to a war to run in a container like you describe. This feature was removed in Play 2.0 to promote the embedded Netty server as the main way to deploy applications. Now you need the play2war to achieve this functionality.