Jun Kit's Tumblr (Trying out Play!)

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Feb Trying out Play!
Play! is a spankin’ new Java web framework that looks a lot like Ruby on Rails, but in Java, of course. It’s cool and refreshing and exciting because it does away with complicated J2EE stacks and throws the concept of servlets out of the window. However, for not being able to deploy a Play! app in a traditional way, you get many awesome things that eluded Java web development for ages, including
- A Share-Nothing approach to web development (YAY!)
- Hot recompiles upon saving your .java files (WOOHOO!)
- A nice built in web server
- Database migrations (don’t bother about the database anymore!)
- Easy deployment to Heroku via git (AWESOME!)
amongst other niceties. I’m excited to be trying it out for a few questions for my SingPath API assignment this midterm break.