as david said, play! destroyed the traditional java -web app- programming. it doesn't use servlets so it is extremely flexible. it doesn't use maven, it uses python. it doesn't use jsp views, it is using a template system built with groovy, and so forth. there are lots of people using play!, contributing to play! and supporting play! they stand for it.
i do not support the elitist criticism on reddit against web2py. these guys, especially armin*, have a thing against web2py for a long time now. web2py is not a library, its a platform where and what people build web applications with. however the criticism by thadeus must be taken very seriously as he is one of the oldest, most experienced and top contributed web2py users. * i like armin's work, especially werkzeug and pygments. however nothing more. On Jan 9, 8:38 pm, David Marko <[email protected]> wrote: > I really reminds me situation I started to work with PlayFramework a few > years ago. Its excelent JAVA web framework, but its done in > completely(internaly) different way than how the rest of the JAVA frameworks > being done(using standard servlet concept). The developers of Play! have a > nice section on their site(under FAQ) called: "You guys don’t even know how > to program in Java..." and they are trying to explain here why they did many > things in a very different way in many areas that others describe as it is > against a "good JAVA practices" > > http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.1/faq > > David
