Fwiw, Scala has several good web frameworks besides Play - Scalatra - Scala's Sinatra Blue Eyes - appears defunct but good example of pure asynchronous framew

Fwiw, Scala has several good web frameworks besides Play - Scalatra - Scala's Sinatra Blue Eyes - appears defunct but good example of pure asynchronous framework Lift - strong built-in security, Netty integration wip. Probably a couple more I'm forgetting.