I currently work in a project where we use the Play framework from Typesafe. I’m really impressed how fast we develop our web application. Actually, after generating the project over the console

$ play new myFirstApp

you start immediately developing your domain stuff. I’d say, if you start with some J2EE monster which is heavily configurable, until you have all that what the Play framework offers you, it’d take probably two weeks to set up your application until you’re able to start.

Here is some all included stuff the Play framework gives you for free:

• Code generation
• ORM
• switch between in-memory database H2 for development and a real database
• mechanism to easily insert development data into the database
• scala based view templating (no xml)
• build and dependency framework
• modularization
• logging
• url mapping