Play framework hangs on startup at: “Loading project definition from”

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.)

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