Are there good reasons for not choosing Play over Spring?

[Or Gal]

Hi,

I'm sure this question has been asked here already but couldn't find it.

I am starting a new project with potential to become a pretty big deployment. Many users, heavy loads, big codebase, etc.

Are there some good reasons to not go with Play? and go with Spring instead?

Thanks,

Or

[johanandren]

One reason could be that it is easier to find developers that has got experience with Spring. That could be pretty important as well if we are talking multi-year-multi-developer projects where there is a risk that the members of the team will be replaced over time. There is probably more books you can buy and read about Spring.

I cannot se any obvious technical reasons for not choosing Play though, any library that is available to Spring is probably available as a standalone java library that can be used directly from a Play project.

Also if we are talking about coding in Scala I'd certainly recommend Play over Spring.

[Stephane C]

Perhaps if you are targeting a servlet based web server, you may decide that Spring MVC is more suitable...