To benefit from the latest improvements and bug fixes, you may want to compile Play from sources. You do not need to install Python separately, because a Python runtime is bundled with the framework. To install Java, just download and install the latest JDK package. To install Java, make sure to use either the Sun-JDK or OpenJDK (and not gcj which is the default Java command on many Linux distros) Windows
Java is built-in, or installed automatically, so you can skip the first step. In general, the installation instructions are as follows. Installation from the binary package Generic instructions So it should work out of the box on any UNIX system (however it requires at least Python 2.5). The play command line utility uses Python. Play will use the default Java or the one available at the $JAVA_HOME path if defined. 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.īe sure to have Java in the current path (enter java -version to check). To run the Play framework, you need Java 5 or later. You are viewing the documentation for Play 1.