[Play 2.3 Java] Unable to load assets from sub-projects/modules with dist

[Patrick Li]

Hi,

I have a project with several sub-modules, something like below (which I think is quite standard):

app

  └ views

    └> index.scala.html

  └ public

    └ stylesheets

      └> main.less

conf

  └> application.conf

  └> routes

modules

  └ web

    └ app

       └ appspokes.web

           └ controllers

              └> Assets.java

    └ public

      └ javascripts

        └> web.js

      └ stylesheets

        └> web.css

    └ conf

        └> web.routes

In the main app's routes file, it is like the following:

... ...

GET         /assets/*file                            controllers.Assets.at(path="/public", file)

GET         /webjars/*file                           controllers.WebJarAssets.at(file)

... ...

In the web sub-module, the web.routes file is like the following:

... ...

GET        /assets/*file        appspokes.web.controllers.Assets.at(path="/public", file)

... ...

Now, everything works fine in dev mode (i.e. run from within IntelliJ), but when I try to run the app from a zip produced with dist, I am unable to load the javascripts and css files from the web-submodule. For example, the URL http://localhost:9000/web/assets/javascripts/web.js would give a 404.

Any idea why the assets will load fine in dev mode but not in dist mode?

Thanks

[Byron Weber Becker]

Did you find a solution to this?  I have a similar problem with Play 2.3.8 (Scala).  It's a project
with sub-projects, like yours.  "activator dist" used to work for this project.  However, I just updated
a javascript file and now it's not being included in the distribution.

I installed a new version of activator since the last successful distribution; wondering if that has
something to do with it.

Thanks,
Byron