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Time to Implement

5 months

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Implementation Time

5 months

Verified User in Internet
AI
Verified User in Internet
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"the review for play framework."
4/5
What do you like best about Play?

The play framework embed non-blocking IO with netty so it is more easy to maintain high-performance than other web appllication framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Play?

The play framework written in Scala unnecessarily use implicit conversion so it is often difficult to read code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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攻城狮
Internet
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Dev mode does not need to restart the server or recompile"
3/5
What do you like best about Play?

Abandon Servlet

A large number of modules

Dev mode does not need to restart the server or recompile restful

Good support for common IDE

Engine template easy integration testing

Websocket support

Scala support (said play-scala version of high performance?) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Play?

Really too small

There is more agreement

Few Chinese resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet
UI
Verified User in Internet
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Skilled Scala Developer"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Play?

Quickly bootstrap and scala async handlers, good RESTful support and well designer routes schema. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Play?

Poor RESTful errors/json errors support, difficult template engine (Twirl). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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