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Have you tried Play (playframework.org) yet?
by Torn 15y ago
Have you tried Play (playframework.org) yet?
- rufugee 15y agoI have high hopes that Play will become the defacto "pragmatic" java/scala(/kotlin, when it's finally ready) framework. Play rocks.
- eropple 15y agoI would dearly like to use Play, but I find it really uncomfortable (and not because I'm some stuck-in-my-ways Java developer). Play's heavy abuse of statics is a real problem from my perspective, in large part because it's extremely painful to write inheritance-based code; I realize it helps the simpler use case but I find that I don't regularly write to the simpler use case. I've gone back to Servlets+Guice+Velocity because it's easier for me to write expressive code.
- moondowner 15y agoYes I've tried it (pre Play 2), and there's one thing I don't like - favoring/integrating certain tools in it. I know that it uses Hibernate through the JPA API, and if you want to use a different ORM you'll have to make a lot of workarounds. And it's not only about ORM. A month or so ago I read that it will integrate a certain JavaScript library in it too. Tapestry Web Framework had this attitude, but the developers found that it brought more negative than positive effect, I hope Play will see the same. Modularity and ease of configuration is a very important thing. I like it's Scala support and enthusiasm though, and I will definitely try it some day again.