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Play

Homepage

http://www.playframework.org/

Latest release

2.1.0 (06/02/2013)

Developed by

Zenexity

Licenses

Apache 2.0

Overall rating

8.4
Usability
8.3
Simplicity
8.2
Documentation
7.5
Community
7.8

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Play 2.0 is a high-productivity Java and Scala web application framework that integrates the components and APIs you need for modern web application development.

Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture and features predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications thanks to its reactive model, based on Iteratee IO.

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RT @mikegehard: The asset pipeline in #playframework just got better… http://t.co/HGOBj5kxah Thanks @_JamesWard and @typesafe.See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
JsZipper : Play2 Json Advanced (& Monadic) Manipulations May 1st, 2013 … (RT @mandubian: JsZipper : #Play2 #Json advanced (& monadic) manipulations http://t.co/mkgVVBIv63 via @prismatic #playframework...See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
I am constantly needing to update static content in Templates in my Play! Framework project, so I decided to integrate the Aloha Editor, an HTML5 WYSIWYG Editor. It is free to use, and they offer a...See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
This talk presents Slick, Typesafe's library for accessing databases, the successor of the popular ScalaQuery library. With Slick, database queries can be ex...See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
Typesafe introduces the worlds first reactive platform – including Play, Akka and Scala.See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
Typesafe introduces the worlds first reactive platform – including Play, Akka and Scala.See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
Test : testSee it on Scoop.it, via playframework
I gave a talk on Play in Practice at the SF Scala meetup recently. Thanks to Stackmob for hosting us and providing pizza. I went into describing how …See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
These are the slides from the talk I gave last week about ReactiveMongo - an Asynchronous and Non-blocking Scala driver for MongoDB. Although it is a very technical talk, which the slides reflect,...See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
On a recent project, my team evaluated several web frameworks for an upcoming web application. We chose The Play Framework. I was very attracted to its simplicity and the rapidity with which we could get things working.See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
Play Framework et Elasticsearch sont deux outils récents très populaires.See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
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One of the main things I missed from Play 1.x is the CRUD Module. After reading posts on the forum about that one or more are in the works, I decided to check them out today. I found a few projects...See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
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play211-scala210-spring3-Hibernate4 - This repository contains the code base for configuring Play Framework 2.1.1 and Scala 2.10 with Spring 3 for Dependency Injection and Hibernate 4 as ORM framework.See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
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The play2-maven-plugin has a new home. I've decided to donate the code to the Nanoko project as the plugin fits in their vision and roadmap. This post presents the few novelties of the plugin.See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
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A year on from Typesafe pushing out the Scala-tuned IDE, the team’s latest release suggests maturity, thanks to a new debugger and editor improvementsSee it on Scoop.it, via playframework
Sadek Drobi presents the architecture of the Play2 framework, a framework helping developers creating web applications in Java and Scala.See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
Have you ever wanted to deploy the same Application with multiple configurations to Cloudbees, without changing your environment variables each time while using the command line? I spent a ton of t...See it on Scoop.it, via playframework
Do you plan to change this world with a web startup? Thinking about technology stack? Monsterous Spring+hundreds of other Java frameworks or elegant, or trendy but bit controversial Ruby on Rails? Don’t think about any compromises, think about Scala+PlayFramework 2! See it on Scoop.it, via playframework

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I like Play's view engine that's looks like the ASP.NET Razor engine. I don't like the fact that Play largely ignores existing Java EE APIs (except JPA) and I like it even less that they (seemingly) switched to Scala on a whim, since at the time that was the most hyped language around. Will they move to Ceylon next when that happens to be the most hyped language at the time they'll be planning for Play 3?

Upgrading hasn't been a really fun experience either. Now, it most frameworks something breaks when you upgrade, but Play has been exceptionally bad here. I haven't used 2.x with Scala yet, but the 1.x Java version suffered from high memory usage and slow startup time. Now again, with most frameworks these days startup time is increased when the app gets bigger (mainly due to annotation scanning), but here too Play behaves a little on the extreme side. Again, this is for 1.x, perhaps 2.x is better.

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