Wow these are really great news. Already used Play 1.2.3 and this was already amazing easy to work with.
Working now with grails 1.3.7 and I definitely will change to Play after finishing my current project.
Grails is a pain and it doesnt feel very light as its built uppon the spring stack which is huge. Using plugins is sometimes risky as they are outdated and you dont really understand what they are doing in the background.
I also like the type safe approach of Scala/Java which you dont have in grails(groovy/java). This is also very useful for code completion in IDEs
Hey there, i can't give you insight about the legalities and taxation details.
But in the most cases(Germany) its the lack of trust why we are not offshoring to india or bangladesh. The customers or even management have some anxiety about sharing their specification/code with other firms outside of europe or even outside of germany.
I worked for 2 years in a company where the long term goal was to offshore all of their technical stuff to india. And i can say it took us a long time to build the confidence between the employees(project manager etc.) to work with india in an efficient way.
I have used Symfony for my last few projects. I'm happy with the way the framework is designed, and it's quite longstanding. Another benefit is the templating is done using pure PHP, so you don't have to learn a new templating language for loops, etc. A new version (v2.0) is due to come out later this year.
The introductory documentation and tutorial are excellent. The Jobeet tutorial walks you through how to create an entire application, with the Symfony developers' best practices being implemented right from the start.
Only con: I do have trouble at times finding answers to the obscure questions I have. There seem to be a lot of forum threads about Symfony, but not quite so many answers. If you can find an experienced Symfony developer, I highly recommend talking to them and getting a few pointers in the right direction. That said, I think it's a great framework, a little on the old side in terms of style, but still quite flexible.
CodeIgniter is fairly decent. I'm using http://fuelphp.com/ these days, which is similar but newer.
I also go back and forth between framework and homegrown. I've done homegrown for years. Framework does have the advantage that you get to use a lot of code others spent time on, so I'm sticking with that for now.
I dislike the Yii approach (it generates code based on your db). Don't think it's necessary, I have no problem coding and optimizing some mysql queries, no need to hide that behind a black box.
After going through CodeIgniter, Zend Framework and CakePHP, I'm pretty much exclusively using Yii for my own projects these days.
The way Components and Behaviours are used throughout the system makes it very easy to combine and plug in disparate modules of code, and it's the most Rails-y framework I've found so far (barring CakePHP which appears to have come leaps and bounds in the last couple of years since I used it last).
(In summary, it matches how I want to work. :) Keep looking until you find something that does the same for you.)
