Play Framework as Backend for Mobile Apps

[Diego Balduini]

Hello

I have some experience developing web apps with the Play Framework and i love it.

Now we are moving to a new project that will have Mobile Apps and Facebook canvas clients.

We are considering in using Play as a RESTfull backend for these clients. 

It need to support 100k+ simultaneous users online (Only online (cached*), they might be idle in the meantime). Here we are assuming the akka can handle it, even with Remote Actors or Clustering (in a EC2 environment).

The reasons we choose play are: productivity and reactive.

Any of you have already used Play as backend for mobile only Apps? What do you think are the Pros and Cons?

Regards, Diego

[Dirceu Semighini Filho]

Hei Diego,
Play work very good in a restful environment.
I can say that the json API is very easy to handle the json requests.
Also the async way of handling the request is an advantage.
At the time that i develop a mobile play restful APP, there wasnt any plugins for handling the login and the security, so we need to develop it

Regards
Dirceu

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[Megazord]

Diego,

https://github.com/baasbox/baasbox

I think it is worth a look.

HTH

[Diego Balduini]

Thank you.

This BaasBox is pretty nice. Even if we don't use it, it's open source will be very helpful.

Regards, Diego

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[Darragh Grealish]

Thanks Megazord, this was also helpful for me too, great working implementation of Java on Play

[Fernando Correia]

I'm building a mobile application (JavaScript + JQuery Mobile) and I'm using Play (Scala) for the backend.

I like it a lot. Some highlights:

• Action composition.
• Async / non-blocking support.
• Statelessness.
• Thread pools.
• Actors.
• Scala's expressiveness and type safety.
• Restful routing support (it's also easy to do RPC-style).
• Websockets, Comet, etc.
  
• Powerful and easy to use testing libraries.
• JSON request handling.
• Clean and simple JSON handling in general.
• Powerful and simple database access (Anorm -- Slick looks good as well).
• Quick refresh in development mode.
• Access to a wealth of Scala and Java libraries.
• JVM (performance, maturity).
• Caching integration.
• You can also use a front-end HTTP server for caching (nginx, Varnish)

[Diego Balduini]

Nice Fernando, thanks for the feedback.

I know Play is awesome for web applications, but i couldn't find any study case with Mobile front-end apps talking with the server-side through RESTfull services.

I am new to the Mobile world and i assumed it would work as perfectly as Web front-end does. Now i fell more comfortable with your feedbacks.

Regards,

Diego.

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