<p>With the Play Framework and Heroku in action, forget about installation and configuration worries. Simply focus on application development on Play and deploy it on the cloud with Heroku Rahul Kumar</p><p>Wednesday, January 02, 2013</p><p>Play is an open source web application framework built around 'convention over configuration' software designing paradigm, which means that you will not lose out on scalability or flexibility. Coding is fun as the developer will have to make lesser number of decisions, making the design simpler. It is heavily inspired by Ruby on Rails and Django, and is a pure Java and Scala framework and allows you to keep your preferred development tools and libraries. If you already use Java or Scala as a development platform you don't need to switch to another language, IDE or libraries. Play leverages the power of Java to build web applications in an environment that is not Java Enterprise Edition-centric.</p><p>Why Play?</p><p><a href="http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/Developer/2013/113010203.asp">Keep reading...</a></p>