Play uses Ebean on the Java side of the fence. Anorm is for Scala users. Here's how to do a query for a person in Anorm:

SQL("select * from person where id = {id}").on("id" -> myAgeVariable).map(row => MyPersonObject(row[String]("name"), row[Int]("age"))).toList

...returns you a list of MyPersonObjects. No need for JPA bindings or any other annotations. Based on type safety, you must have the method MyPersonObject.apply(name: String, age: Int) or else the compiler will error. It's a great way of catching SQL funkiness inside your IDE.