I found a code sample much easier to grok quickly. Stumbled across this a couple weeks back when looking at the updates in the latest version of RESTlet.

http://cwiki.apache.org/CXF20DOC/jax-rs-jsr-311.html#JAX-RS%...

I just built an application using JAX-RS/Jersey. It was super easy and painless.

Talks about reducing the web framework layer to virtually nothing beyond a REST API. Interesting read.

He called Rails' code base small and easy to grok. I think I just stopped giggling.

Edit: Smart ass-remarks aside, this does look like a decent Java ActionController/Sinatra. I didn't see anything about view helpers. Anyone know how they'd assemble a lightweight full stack on this?

Reminds me of Sinatra, a ruby DSL for web-apps http://sinatra.github.com/