After studying a lot of Java frameworks, I found a pretty interesting tool to develop web applications. Now you’re thinking: that framework just for run and test the application you need to configure 452 xmls and you need to configure the database, and a lot of other things… like for instance Hibernate, if you want to get an DB object-mapper. Yes, you can have MVC, using Spring… but, you need to configure again, xmls. But why the hell do you need to configure xmls? I just want to focus on my programming, on the way I’m doing software.
After seeing rails, I became very interested in developing web applications in that way. Play Framework uses the same principle. I am doing some experiments with this new framework.
You already know Play Framework features (that are on their own website). These are the features I like more:
- Changing the Models at runtime (yes! You can change your database at runtime);
- Automatic admin generation;
- Ability to have template custom tags;
- Integration with Hibernate (you just need to configure a text file that has your credentials to your database – don’t forget the jdbc jar at playproject/lib);
- Allows you to create a netbeans or an eclipse configuration to run the project inside the IDE;
- Support (they are always trying to help at google groups or at irc);
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