Hi, I'm on the Play team. We've got a number of Play maintained example projects that show how you can configure different projects:

https://playframework.com/download#examples

Should save you some time if you're looking to get started with JPA, different libraries, etc.

Also, this doesn't really get at the strengths of Play as a reactive application. For example, here's a talk where I discuss using Reactive Streams with Play to stream video through Play. It's about two years old now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUB7GJMe_WY

Thanks!