Introducing Play: Building real time web applications

Play (http://www.playframework.com/) (aka "play framework" if you're trying to Google it) is a web application framework that has APIs in Java and Scala. It is the best of both worlds: it's as fast to develop in as Grails, but has the type safety of Java and the speed of JSP. Play is built from the bottom up to work with Reactive applications, where streaming real time data from WebSocket or SSE must come in, be processed, and immediately handed back. We're going to show how all the pieces of Play work, and demo some applications.

Will Sargent is a consultant for Typesafe, and a contributor to Play. He's been making web applications for 15 years, and has seen more web frameworks than really necessary.