Play Framework — add new directories to classpath

Question

I would like to be able to have a separate directory where jar files that represent plugins can be added to a Play 2.0 project. Jar files are normally kept under the /lib directory in Play. I'd like to separate my jars in a directory called /plugins

This question was asked before, but the suggestion was to just use the /lib directory. Adding additional java files to playframework classpath

Is there no way to do this without manually changing the 'eclipsified' files generated by Play?

Answer 1

I suppose you can do that by altering the sbt build script. Should be as simple as

unmanagedBase <<= baseDirectory { base => base / "custom_lib" }

Here is the link to the sbt documentation.