Play 2.2 is out and can be added separately from rest of Play Framework. in build.sbt: resolvers += “Typesafe Repo” at “http://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/releases/” libraryDependencies += “com.typesafe.play” %% “play-json” % “2.2.1”
From the official documentation: http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.1.1/SBTDependencies Getting the right Scala version with %% If you use groupID %% artifactID % revision instead of groupID % artifactID % revision (the difference is the double %% after the groupID), SBT will add your project’s Scala version to the artifact name. This is just a shortcut. You could write … Read more