Question

I’ve been asking and investigating around about the new Play Framework 2.0. It seems like a great tool to create websites with Java. It high quality framework I must say.

However, I notice that there are not modules for the 2.0 version out yet. This is because 2.0 is too new and, according to other stackoverflow user, because of a bug in 2.0.

Moreover, other users suggested 2.0 was a much better framework, and the differences were not minor functionality.

My question is…

Would you give up CRUD and other awesome modules to stick to 2.0 framework?? Why?

Answer 1

Go for 2.0 because:

1. Play framework 1.2.x WILL be discontinued in some future so it has
   no sense to invest your time if you plan to use it more than once.
2. 2.0 is freshly released and there will be more modules if community (means: me, you and others) will publish them.
3. 2.0 isn’t just ‘better’ it’s rather ‘better suited for the future’. Some well-known properties from 1.x are still missing, here we can conclude in the same way as in point no. 2.
4. Finally CRUD: this is matter of taste, I found that 1.2.x CRUD is not so comfortable to use for me, especially when I needed to modify it in bigger part. Just I preferred to create custom controllers/views from the scratch to do CRUD-like tasks. In 2.0 approach is similar, but it’s even more comfortable as using Play’s forms you can achieve both goals: quite easy views for editing your objects + much greater flexibility.