It’s a shame that the Play framework is being abandoned. v1 had a lot of great ideas, but v2 kind of jumped off the cliff into Scala lala-land, where it got lost in the weeds. It never really recovered.<p>If you’re looking for a straightforward Java framework similar to Play v1 check out Ninja:<p><a href="https://www.ninjaframework.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ninjaframework.org/</a><p>For me at least, it hits a sweet spot of enabling fast productive development and maintainable code.