I've had to work with Play lately, and I find it quite delightful. It's butchering java as a language (or at least what's considered good practice), but since i

I've had to work with Play lately, and I find it quite delightful. It's butchering java as a language (or at least what's considered good practice), but since it works so well, you tend to overlook that. I'm also a fan of maven. There's nothing better than checking out a huge project with a great deal of dependencies and just have it build perfectly with a couple of keystrokes. Seems like the play developers (Guillaume et co) went for a clean break with legacy java though. And if you want that, you can't depend on maven. Only had a cursory look at 2.0 so far, but moving further into Scala territory and adopting SBT seems like an interesting move to me. Play is becoming a great vehicle for Web developers who want to ease into a Scala future.