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title: "Play Framework"
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ring: adopt
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quadrant: languages-and-frameworks
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The Play Framework is a lightweight (web)application framework for Java and [Scala](https://extranet.aoe.com/confluence/display/knowledge/Scala+Lang) programmers.
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A developer can choose from different modules to include necessary functionality such s accessing http resources, databases, and so on. As a consequence, the developer can choose, and is not distracted by or clobbered with irrelevant things. This approach is considered as minimalistic, but it is easy to include necessary functionality.
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Regarding the architecture, Play is stateless and built on Akka. As a consequence, Play applications have much lower resource consumption regarding CPU und memory and can scale easily. Play manages concurrency without binding a request to a thread until the response is ready.
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With the use of "[Futures](http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/futures.html)" in your code you can turn synchronous tasks (such as IO or API call to another service) into asynchronous and you can build non-blocking applications. It is recommended to understand the principles Play uses to achieve performance and scalability.
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Play can act as backend service delivering JSON, for esample. For building web applications. the [Twirl](https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.5.x/ScalaTemplates) template engine enables server-side rendering of html pages. These html pages can include css and java script parts of your own choice.
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