Is there anything Play 2 Java can do that Play 1 Java + Japid template cannot do as well?
Seems like the move to Play 2 and Scala is more political than technical. The Play people formed an alliance with Typesafe, a Scala company, and thus decided to move away from Java and focus on Scala, abandoning their huge Java user base of Play 1.
Nope this is not what happened.
Play team made the decision months before to start moving to Scala when experimenting the play-scala module of Play1.
This is a technical decision to build a web framework to the JVM. And even if the core is written in Scala, it doesn't mean you can't use it in Java. Give a try!
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Most of your points only apply to Scala.
Is there anything Play 2 Java can do that Play 1 Java + Japid template cannot do as well?
Seems like the move to Play 2 and Scala is more political than technical. The Play people formed an alliance with Typesafe, a Scala company, and thus decided to move away from Java and focus on Scala, abandoning their huge Java user base of Play 1.
Nope this is not what happened. Play team made the decision months before to start moving to Scala when experimenting the play-scala module of Play1.
This is a technical decision to build a web framework to the JVM. And even if the core is written in Scala, it doesn't mean you can't use it in Java. Give a try!