Or the logger interface. It's awful. Great that you use the sl4j interface, but I can't cast it to that type because it's a wrapper for the "real" logger writte

Or the logger interface. It's awful. Great that you use the sl4j interface, but I can't cast it to that type because it's a wrapper for the "real" logger written in Scala. It's annoying, and agreed- using Java in the Play framework feels more like a "look what else it can do" than an intentional use-case.