JavaZone 2011 - Play! Framework: to infinity and beyond
The Play! framework is more than just yet another web framework in the Java eco-system: it is also another way of developing web applications. Like RoR, Django, it encourages fast and expressive development, with a clean and pragmatic API. Most importantly, perhaps, it brings simplicity and fun to the Java world. However, simplicity does not mean being limited to simple web applications. The framework gives you enough power to actually create just anything you can think off: with continuation, web socket support, asynchronous call it is one of the first framework to empower you. We will dive into details on how to use those features and realize that it is actually quite simple, Scala might even be part of the program... Infinity and beyond are now reachable to Java Web developers!
Peter Hilton
Senior solution architect and Operations Director, having joined Lunatech Research in 2004. Peter works on web application architecture, design and construction, with technical project management. He also does sales, marketing and recruitment work. His interests include Java web application frameworks, agile software development process and practices, and web-based collaboration.
Since 2010, Peter has been a committer on the Play framework open-source project.
Nicolas Leroux
Nicolas Leroux is a senior architect and Technical Director at Lunatech, having joined in 2001.
Nicolas is an expert early adopter of the Java Enterprise platform as well as the open-source technologies that gravitate around it. He applies this experience and technical expertise of the middleware platform on Lunatech's projects and for Lunatech's clients
Nicolas is also an open source enthousiast and more specifically a Java enthusiast. He is the co-founder of the Benelux JBoss User Group and the Riviera Java User Group . He also contributes to the open source frameworks he uses by committing patches.
Since 2009, Nicolas has had a passion for the Play framework and is now a core developer of its open-source project.