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I love Play!. Compared to other enterprise Java frameworks, it’s incredibly simple for the developer to use.
But, how does it do that? What makes the edit-refresh cycle possible with a compiled language like Java? What makes Play! work the way it works?
Play uses the Eclipse compiler to compile code at run-time.
Take a look at the following class, that is used by Play to perform the necessary compilation at run time.
https://github.com/playframework/play/blob/master/framework/src/play/classloading/ApplicationCompiler.java