• play-alone is a stripped version of "com.typesafe.play" %% "play" (contains only some core classes, and depends only on some obvious libraries such as com.typesafe:config, akka, slf4j-api)

• play-jdbc-alone is identical to "com.typesafe.play" %% "play-jdbc" except that we removed bonecp support (and removed bonecp's transitive dependencies)

play-jdbc-alone depends on play-alone.

• play-ws-alone is identical to "com.typesafe.play" %% "play-ws" except that we removed play.api.libs.{oauth, openid} packages (and removed the corresponding dependencies)

play-ws-alone depends on play-alone and ws-core-deps - which contains some extra classes that also be extracted from "com.typesafe.play" %% "play"

Thoses library enable us to write code that use some play (2.5.x) libraries without play itself:

• play-jdbc
• anorm
• play-ws
• play-cache

• The code & config that use play-jdbc-alone/ play-ws-alone is exactly same as if you use full playframework
• So, you can use anorm or other database libraries (exactly) as in a full play app.
• We are using play-jdbc-alone, anorm, play-ws-alone in:
  • Some java game servers (in production with millions users at http://sandinh.com) that is NOT a Play application.
  • And in the banking module (in an iframe at http://sandinh.com/bank) that IS a Play application. Here, we just remove play-jdbc-alone/ play-ws-alone dependency (replaced by the full Play framework + play-jdbc / play-ws)

• Get the library from maven center
  • for play-jdbc-alone:

libraryDependencies += "com.sandinh" %% "play-jdbc-alone" % <playAloneVersion>

- for play-ws-alone:

libraryDependencies += "com.sandinh" %% "play-ws-alone" % <playAloneVersion>

- for play version < 2.4 please use [play-jdbc-standalone 2.1.x](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|g%3A%22com.sandinh%22%20play-jdbc-standalone)

• Bootstrap the minimal PlayAlone:

com.sandinh.PlayAlone.start()

• Coding & configuring as normal (see the anorm / play-jdbc / play-ws document from play website)

see compare-to-play.md

see CHANGES.md

This software is licensed under the Apache 2 license: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Sân Đình (http://sandinh.com)