I found http://www.sparkjava.com http://www.sparkjava.com to be better than Play framework personally if you want to work with Java. Play seems to be more Scala

I found http://www.sparkjava.com http://www.sparkjava.com to be better than Play framework personally if you want to work with Java. Play seems to be more Scala focussed when I tried it. It’s rather minimal though, just providing the HTTP stack for you, so you have to do your own DB connections and the like.