Take a look at liftweb. http://liftweb.net/ http://liftweb.net/ Its Scala which I don't know, but I've got some very intelligent friends trying to get me to bac

Take a look at liftweb. http://liftweb.net/ http://liftweb.net/ Its Scala which I don't know, but I've got some very intelligent friends trying to get me to back it at our company. (Scala is a lisp that runs in the JVM. - Someone's going to hang me for confusing what lisp is.) Its a framework that can leverage websockets/comet/longpoll to extend your classes to work client side. Think message passing between client objects (in js) and server objects (in scala). You can do jqueryish things server side to the client side pages. (That blew me away when I saw it in action.) Your submit even can pass params to the server object. It's really simple and strait forward. I'm looking for lift for NodeJS. Check out the ubiquitous "chat server" example in the simply lift book. http://simply.liftweb.net/ http://simply.liftweb.net/