playframework - Play framework hangs on startup at: "Loading project definition from"

Question

I am just getting started with Play Framework. I have downloaded and installed play and created a sample java application. When I try to start the play console in the application directory it hangs at "Loading project definition".

PS C:devplayjavatest> play.bat
Getting org.scala-sbt sbt_2.9.1 0.11.3 ...
:: retrieving :: org.scala-sbt#boot-app
        confs: [default]
        37 artifacts copied, 0 already retrieved (7245kB/283ms)
[info] Loading project definition from C:devplaymyFirstAppproject

When i try running a Scala application i get a message about it waiting for a lock:

PS C:devplayscalatest> play
[info] Loading project definition from C:devplayest1project
Waiting for lock on C:libplay
epository.sbt.ivy.lock to be available...

Running Windows 7, JDK 1.7.0_05 and Play Framework 2.0.2. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I just experienced this myself with Play 2 and it turns out it wasn't truly hanging, it was just pulling a maven and downloading the Internet. To verify this is the same behavior you were experiencing edit project/plugins.sbt and replace:

logLevel := Level.Warn

with

logLevel := Level.Debug

(Though I am building on OSX I imagine you will experience similar output on Windows.)