I have tried running activator from the distribution, but even when I set the proxy configuration, it seems that there are some hosts I cannot access from behind my corporate firewall. This includes Amazon S3, which seems to be being used when I try to run the ui.
Is it possible to use activator solely from the distribution I have downloaded (which appears to contain a local ivy repository)? Currently, it does not seem that play, sbt, activator etc. are well-suited to a corporate environment. Have I missed something?
You can always use the activator terminal command. For this you'd need no internet connection. Actually I never use the activator UI unless I want to try out some examples. Run activator help from within your play application's root folder to see the list of possible commands. E.g. with activator run you'd run your application.