Acknowledgments

First of all, we would like to thank the Play community who’ve helped turn Play into what it is today. Without the hard work from the committers, people writing documentation, asking and answering questions on the forums, writing modules, and all the application developers using Play, there wouldn’t have been any point in writing this book.

Second, we’d like to thank all the people at Manning who helped us write this book. Michael Stephens who approached us to write this book. Bert Bates who taught us how to write. Karen Miller who was our editor for most of the process. Furthermore, we’d like to thank the production team who did a lot of hard work (including weekends) to get this book to press, and everyone else at Manning. Without you, this book wouldn’t have been possible.

We’d like to thank, especially, James Ward for writing a thoughtful foreword, Jorge Aliss who was particularly helpful when we were writing about SecureSocial, the external reviewers—Adam Browning, Andy Hicks, Doug Kirk, Henning Hoefer, Ivo Jerkovic, Jeton Bacaj, Keith Weinberg, Magnus Smith, Nikolaj Lindberg, Pascal Voitot, Philippe Charrière, Stephen Harrison, Steve Chaloner, Tobias Kaatz, Vladimir Kuptcov and William E. Wheeler—and technical proofreader, Thomas Lockney, who devoted their own time to review our book and make it better, as well as the MEAP subscribers who took the time to let us know about issues on the forum.

Last, but certainly not least, we would like to thank you, the person reading this book. We wrote this book for you, to help you get the most out of Play. The fact that you’re reading this means that we didn’t do it for nothing, and we hope this book helps you to build great and wonderful software. If you do, thank you for that too.