Talk at the Java User Group Meetup in Vienna in April 2016. Code: https://github.com/mkurz/jug-vienna-talk

1. Play Framework 2.5

2. Myself
https://github.com/mkurz
Using Play since 2010 (v1.1)
Official collaborator (“integrator”)
since June 2015

3. Playframework
Latest version 2.5.2
Typesafe is now called Lightbend
They already use Play Framework:
Zalando, Atlassian, LinkedIn, The Guardian, Coursera, etc.

4. Live demo
Hopefully it works.... ;)

7. What else?
Akka Streams instead of iteratees
Support for other logging frameworks than logback
Nested JPA transactions
Official SASS sbt plugin

8. What else?
WS now also have filters (.withRequestFilter)
multipart/form-data support in WS
multipart/form-data support in tests (Fake requests)
(Dropped Scala 2.10 support)
… coding in Scala not needed anymore (for most stuff)

9. Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/playframework/playframework
Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/play-framework
SOF: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/playframework
Docs: https://www.playframework.com/documentation
● Migration Guides
● Modules directory
Community and support

10. Future of Play
Roadmap
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11sVi1-
REAIDFVHvwBrfRt1uXkBzROHQYgmcZNGJtDnA
Play 3 Implementation Plan
https://docs.google.
com/document/d/1OejviUX5TDlRVeKg1JD9L4qh2Tn21giItmyxRXCydN0

11. Questions? Get in touch!
m.kurz@irregular.at
https://github.com/mkurz