Has someone used kotlin with play using Gradle? Any tips?

Same as Java: https://engineering.linkedin.com/play/developing-play-applications-using-gradle https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/play_plugin.html

I wasn't able to apply the Kotlin plugin in a gradle project, maybe I missed just some configuration.

@kirillrakhman: easiest way is to just let IDEA configure it for you. Create a new Kotlin file and it will prompt to do so.

@kirillrakhman: maybe. hard to know. you need the

buildScript

block for defining the plugin classpath, the

apply

of the plugin, and then need the runtime library in your

dependencies

for the project. This page: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/using-gradle.html shows all of this:

buildscript {
  repositories {
    mavenCentral()
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath 'org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:<version>'
  }
}

apply plugin: "kotlin" // or apply plugin: "kotlin2js" if targeting JavaScript

repositories {
  mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
  compile 'org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:<version>'
}

is that what you tried?

also #C0B8PUJGZ

Looking for some OSS applications in sparkjava.com or ninjaframework.org, or any other relatively modern web micro-framework (not play or vaadin). Not really huge, not a hello world. Any ideas?

@orangy: I suggest looking at the most active GitHub forks of Spark/Ninja. Perhaps the forking users have other repos for OSS apps that use those frameworks?

@orangy: https://github.com/aleksey-zhidkov/jet-in-cloud - it's hackathon project, so code quality is pretty low, but it works and uses spark:) Probably I can refactor and cleanup it if needed

@aleksey.zhidkov: thanks! I’ll take a look

@orangy I found this project that is basically a repackaging of sparkjava together with a nicer syntax based on Xtend. Don't know if worth it but should be easy to port it to kotlin. Check it out https://github.com/tobykurien/Sparkler

I'am trying to use kotlin for a backend There is a hosting that I like which ships with JBoss (WildFly) http://wildfly.org/ They say that WildFly is a

Java EE application server

Does that mean that it can run any Java application, for example

Netty

?

@voddan: no… it would host packaged web apps as WAR files

Netty is more low level

So is Undertow, which is the basis behind wildfly

so if you like wildfly, but wanted to dig in and have a smaller footprint without a WAR, use Undertow

or look at Vert.x if you want more of a platform around other types of things you might be doing.

It really depends on your overall goals and not just the web part, but what is surrounding it, scale, style of coding and more.

for just REST, there are other options

DropWizard w/Jersey style annotations, or SparkJava (full web, not just REST), or Kovert (Kotlin REST engine for Vert.x), or … many many many more

Also #C0A974TJ9 simple smile

many thanks, guys, I'll research the names you gave me !

last time I mentioned ktor you told me “NOT YET!” so letting you do it from now on jaja

Well… okaaaay…

see how it works?

😄

Hi all, again. I've so docs on the topic. Many thanks to @apatrida and @orangy for the guidance Correct me if I'me wrong: Netty is library, not a server. And #C0AJLM1MM is a routing framework on Netty. So for them to work a hosting must support Java EE, that's all, right?

Just a JVM you can start service with

That's great!

Another question: am I right that Gradle should do anything Mathen does?