Since 2007, we have been working on making Java web application development easier. Play started as an internal （国内的） project at Zenexity and was heavily influenced（受影响的） by our way of doing web projects: focusing on developer productivity（生产力）, respecting（关于） web architecture（建筑学、建筑样式）, and using a fresh approach（方法） to packaging conventions （惯例）from the start - breaking so-called JEE best practices（实践） where it made sense（感觉）.
从2007，我们致力于使java Web 开发更简单一些。Play开始受国内Zenexity的影响，用我们的方法聚焦于生产力，关于web的样式，我们使用新的方法打包打破所谓的JEE最好的惯例，使其更具有参与性。
In 2009, we decided to share these ideas with the community as an open source project. The immediate（立即） feedback（反馈） was extremely （非常）positive and the project gained（获得） a lot of traction（牵引）. Today - after two years of active development - Play has several versions, an active community of 4,000 people, with a growing number of applications running in production all over the globe.
在2009年我们决定开放源码在社区中，立即获得了非常好的反馈，在程序上面有了很多的牵引力，今天，经过两年多的发展，play已经有了很多的版本，有4,000人在使用，在全球有很大的增长趋势。
Opening a project to the world certainly means more feedback, but it also means discovering and learning about new use cases, requiring features and un-earthing bugs that we were not specifically considered in the original design and its assumptions. During the two years of work on Play as an open source project we have worked to fix this kind of issues, as well as to integrate new features to support a wider range of scenarios. As the project has grown, we have learned a lot from our community and from our own experience - using Play in more and more complex and varied projects.
在全世界开放一个程序，当然意味着更多的反馈，但是这也意味着开发和学习新的例子，接收国际的设计和bug，通过这两年的发展，play一直作为一个开源的框架在工作，我们也努力解决这类的错误，已集结成个多的功能支持更大范围的场景，随着项目的增加，我们已经学习了很多从我们的社会，和我们的讲演一一是用在了越来越复杂越来越多样的项目中。
Meanwhile, technology and the web have continued to evolve. The web has become the central point of all applications. HTML, CSS and JavaScript technologies have evolved quickly - making it almost impossible for a server-side framework to keep up. The whole web architecture is fast moving towards real-time processing, and the emerging requirements of today’s project profiles mean SQL no longer works as the exclusive datastore technology. At the programming language level we’ve witnessed some monumental changes with several JVM languages, including Scala, gaining popularity.
That’s why we created Play 2.0, a new web framework for a new era.