Enterprise Application Development w/ Scala

[Eebs]

Hello, my (small) company has been working on a project for the past 6
months, and are nearing the point of beginning to start actual
development. Our project will be fairly large in nature, and we're
very interested in using Scala as the primary language. Play seems
like a great framework to work with, but I'm a little concerned about
its maturity in terms of Scala support.

Currently the documentation says "We are in very very active
development on this stuff. You can try it for now as an experimental
feature. Don’t expect to write a complete play application in Scala
right now." Should we consider either waiting for a more stable
release or using a different framework?

Basically, would it be an exercise in futility to attempt to design a
large scale application using Play and the Scala module?

Thanks, Eebs.

[Guillaume Bort]

Hi,

Since the scala-module can be used with a production ready version of
Play, yes you can now use scala for a production application. However
the documentation is not accurate and the development workflow is
still less polished than the java version.

The main problem currently is the Hibernate component that doesn't
match with Scala. That's why we are working on a new data access
component before rewriting the sample applications, updating the
tutorial, completing the documentation and releasing a dedicated
website.

All these tasks will be completed during the next weeks.

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[Jeffer]

Awsome news!  Looking forward to the new Play / Scala release.  We're a Grails shop here and keeping an eye open with excitement on Play / Scala.  Keep up the great work!

[Sebastien Cesbron]

Hi

Is it possible to have more information on this new data acess component. Is it based on an existing framework ?
Is there a place when we can find the source code ?

Regards
Seb

2011/1/10 Guillaume Bort <guillau...@gmail.com>

[Ike]

I haven't seen any documentation yet but most of the development seems to be happening in:

https://github.com/guillaumebort/play-scala/blob/master/src/play/db/sql/Sql.scala

and the other two files in the same directory. At the top of Sql.scala there's a comment with some sample usage that looks promising.

[Guillaume Bort]

And corresponding tests are here:

https://github.com/guillaumebort/play-scala/blob/master/samples-and-tests/just-test-cases/test/SqlTests.scala