I am using Spring-Depedency
injection instead of Play-Framework Guice
Depedency injection, because of our requirement, we need to use most of the
May be a late answer for this question. Posting it for the benefit of future reference.
I faced a similar challenge of using spring beans in Play 2.5.X. There is an api guice-spring provided by guice to integrate spring with guice injector. Using this api I was able to configure guice to fetch beans form my spring context for injection, especially my controller beans. Check this link to see how to bind a spring bean into guice.