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Prerequisites To run the Play framework, you need Java 6 or later. If you wish to build Play from source, you will need the Git source control client to fetch the source code and Ant to build it. Be sure to have Java in the current path (enter java --version to check) Play will use the default Ja...

If you already have sbt installed I find it easier to create a minimal Play project without activator. Here's how. # create a new folder mkdir myNewProject # launch sbt sbt When previous steps are completed, edit build.sbt and add the following lines name := """myProjectName&q...

Installations Download and install: Java 8 - download the relevant installation from Oracle site. Activator - download zip from www.playframework.com/download and extract files to the target Play folder, for example to: c:\Play-2.4.2\activator-dist-1.3.5 sbt - download from www.sc...