Play! framework uses a of statics

Question

Waaah, the Play! framework has so many static methods. Where I go to school, we were told never ever to use any statics, yet Play! uses it like there\'s no tomorrow

Answer 1

Play takes a functional approach, like node.js for example, and arguably makes 'more sense' in Scala than in Java, as the Typesafe Stack is pushing, for example. As other posters have pointed out, Java is being augmented using bytecode instrumentation (a la Aspect J) to behave in a more stateless/functional way; Scala does this by default.