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Play is an open source project that has been around for a few years. In fact, that's one of the big selling points for us: we're not inventing something new, but using something the community is using, and contributing back to it.

I'm not sure such a framework already existed for Java and Scala. Which one should Typesafe contribute to if not Play?

Play is not new. It's been around for years and was the first Java framework of its kind.

You know in the time it took you to write that you could have Google'd this information.