My early attempts for play login/rego were using SecureSocial. SecureSocial looked promising. It was providing good support for the features I wanted and getting a simple implementation up and going worked relatively easily.
Its only when I start going past the initial simple implementation that it started to give me real problems. The version for Play 2.3 is still immature and there isn’t enough documentation on the interfaces that you need to implement. Customising the user services to get user login and registration working with an existing backend takes too long and leads to hard to debug errors. In conclusion, it just isn’t worth the headache. The library makes life harder.
So I’ve now moved to Play Silhoutte. It is actually a fork of SecureSocial. The author behind it forked it for a lot of the same reasons that I dislike SecureSocial. Silhoutte is more modular, simpler to customise and has good documentation. There is also plenty of activator seed projects that prove how it works and how to customise it.
The Silhoutte Slick Seed provides a good example project that shows how to integrate with your own backend.
