Scalatra in Action

Chapter 2. A taste of Scalatra

This chapter covers

• Understanding the framework’s major features
• A brief introduction to the concept of routing
• Sending parameters to a Scalatra application

As an introduction to building applications with Scalatra, let’s start with a basic page-retrieval system and then move on to more-advanced functionality. Because it’s your first app, we’ll keep the initial requirements fairly simple. You want to be able to visit URLs in the browser, retrieve data from a data store, format the data into styled HTML, and display the page. These are the sorts of common tasks that can be accomplished by pretty much any web framework. In this case, you’ll build a site that displays food-related text.

2.1. Your first Scalatra ...