h1. PlayMorphia features

PlayMorphia is a Object-MongoDB mapping layer to help Play application developers easily access MongoDB. PlayMorphia provides powerful yet simple enough interfaces and facilities to address nearly all aspect for application to access MongoDB:

# Object-BSON mapping. Map between Java POJO object and MongoDB BSON format data. See "PlayMorphia model":model.
# Support "embedded":model#embed and "reference":model#reference relationship between models
# "Transparent GridFS support for Blob fields":model#gridfs
# "Automatic create and update timestamp":model#timestamp
# "Support arbitrary ID type":cust_id
# "Creating index with annotations":model#index
# "Super powerful and easy query interface":query
# "Complete aggregation and group aggregation support":statistics
# "Sophisticated Model entity lifecycle event handling framework":lifecycle
# Play!Framework integration
## @play.db.Model@ support. The PlayMorphia model class extends @play.db.Model@ class and you get all most everything you can get from Play's JPA model facilities. Actually you get more in PlayMorphia
## CRUD support. PlayMorphia model support most CRUD operations transparently
## Data binding and validation. You can continue enjoy Play's automatic data binding mechansim when you are working with PlayMorphia
## Fixtures. You can use Play's Fixture to load yaml data into your MongoDB. However you need to use MorphiaFixture to delete data

h2. <a name="resource">See Also</a>

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