It reminds me of Sinatra. The HTTP paramater/object binding is similar, for example: http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.0/5things http://www.playfram

It reminds me of Sinatra. The HTTP paramater/object binding is similar, for example: http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.0/5things http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.0/5things A difference is that the routes, model, controller and template/renderer are in separate directories. It's a bit awkward for the simple project of the one in the video, but essential for more complicated projects. It even includes a captcha generator, and their examples seem to be of real (though very simple) applications - as opposed to toy academic ones. I get the feeling that its developers are very familiar with the real needs and problems of actual web development. It almost makes me want to get into web development! The only thing is that combining HTML, Groovy templating, Javascript and JQuery looks a little complex - but they're probably very straightforward for common tasks.