The applications to date have been static - essentially a collecting of individual web pages. For more sophisticated web site we need to move to creating web applications. This will require a shift to considering the web site as an aggregating of fragments of web pages, composed and assembled by a program we also write.
To build a web application we need a web framework. This will define the superstructure of our application and provide essential features to enable us to compose a complicated and efficient web application
This is the starter web application you will build in this weeks lab. It will always have a very specific structure coupled with a tightly controller life cycle for handing requests.
Move the Spacebook application from the static site into the structure provide by the Play framework. This will require installation of the framework, creation of a starter project and incorporation of the work we have already completed in the last lab.