Introducing Play Framework: Java Web Application Development

© Prem Kumar Karunakaran 2020

P. K. KarunakaranIntroducing Play Frameworkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5645-9_7

7. Accessing Databases

Prem Kumar Karunakaran¹ 

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Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

 

Play 2 has excellent support for SQL databases. All the database-related configurations are maintained in the conf/application.conf file. By default, Play 2 provides support for JDBC connection pools (connection pools offer efficient and faster access to the database resources).

Configuring Database Support

Edit the build.sbt file and add

libraryDependencies += javaJdbc

This will enable the JDBC API for Play projects.

Now open the application.conf file and add the following content:

# Database configuration

# ~~~~~

# You can declare as many datasources as ...