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pinky¶

Pinky is a Scala REST/MVC glue web framework built on top of Guice and Guice Servlet 2.0.

Features

• No custom template language
• (almost) No XML configuration
• URL/template mapping is convention based but can be easily overwritten
• Form generator/validator
• Jdbc helper
• Out of the box support for the following representations:
  • XML (via xstream or scala)
  • JSON (via xstream or json lib)
  • RSS 2.0
  • FreeMarker
  • Velocity
• akka integration
• scheduler for akka jobs
• comet integration (based on jetty7 continuation , note it does not require a jetty container though)
  • Controllers are plain old servlets
• Form validator and generator
• Named regex group capturing in url mappings
• Filters are implemented as plain old filters
• Filters/Servlet creation and mapping are managed by Guice
• Out of the box support for REST via managed servlets
• AOP support for servlet/filters and for regular components (via Guice)
• No learning curve (we are dealing with plain old servlets/filters after all)
• Dependency injection (powered by Guice)
• Scoped components ie Request, Session, custom scopes (powered by Guice)
• Ease access to other Guice modules like warp-persist for db persistance
• Easy access to Request/Response objects
• Easy to integrate with existing projects (thanks to servlets)
• Easy to extend
• new API to deal with jdbc
• support for form generation and validation

akka rest