Added Akka Mist port and pointers to other community HTTP/REST projects to the HTTP docs

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HTTP
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Play2-mini
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Play2 Mini
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The Akka team recommends the `Play2-mini <https://github.com/typesafehub/play2-mini>`_ framework when building RESTful
The Akka team recommends the `Play2 Mini <https://github.com/typesafehub/play2-mini>`_ framework when building RESTful
service applications that integrates with Akka. It provides a REST API on top of `Play2 <https://github.com/playframework/Play20/>`_.
Getting started
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First you must make your application aware of play-mini.
In SBT you just have to add the following to your _libraryDependencies_::
In SBT you just have to add the following to your ``libraryDependencies``::
libraryDependencies += "com.typesafe" %% "play-mini" % "<version-number>"
Akka Mist
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If you are using Akka Mist (Akka's old HTTP/REST module) with Akka 1.x and wish to upgrade to 2.x
there is now a port of Akka Mist to Akka 2.x. You can find it `here <https://github.com/thenewmotion/akka-http>`_.
Other Alternatives
==================
There are a bunch of other alternatives for using Akka with HTTP/REST. You can find some of them
among the `Community Projects <http://akka.io/community>`_.