[drKarl]

I see your point. Play is a framework based in the pattern MVC. If you just don't provide any View layer, you can use the Controller to access the Model, and use the rest of the goodies Play gives you for free, like Jobs, the WS class for easy HTTP calls, a RESTFUL interface, etc.

As I said, you can always use just Quartz for the jobs (that's what Play uses anyway), and create your own Data Access Layer or use an ORM, or what you like.