Chapter 1. Building a Web Service
This chapter will cover the following topics:
- Bootstrapping a Play project
- Understanding the different pieces of a Play project
- Mapping URLs to your service entry points
- Serving JSON responses and reading and validating JSON requests
Play – a framework used to write web applications
Play is a framework used to write web applications. As shown in the following diagram, a web application is based on a client-server architecture and uses the HTTP protocol for communication:
Web-oriented architecture
Users have the role of clients and make HTTP requests to servers to interact with the application. The servers process their ...
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