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Play 1's code generation / scaffolding for CRUD apps was nice. It would be a cool feature to add to Play 2.

I really find Play 2 to be an enormous improvement over Play 1 though. As just one example, deploying your app is so much easier in Play 2. Play 1 expected you to install the framework on your production machines. Play 2 has built-in support for building deb/rpm packages, docker containers, zip archives, etc. which makes deploying so much easier.

Yes, such a big improvement. With SBT's 'sbt docker:stage' command it's pretty much trivial to get a Play app running on a cloud provider that supports docker.

Agreed - I feel like the simplicity was lost in order to make the framework more scalable, when 95% of sites don't need the added scalability it provides.

I used play2crud once. It was a good plugin : https://github.com/hakandilek/play2-crud