Welcome to the Hot wiki!

Hot is a polyglot reactive web framework for the JVM. It let you develop any kind of server app in a reactive way with one of the three currently supported languages Groovy, Javascript and Python.

The kind of applications are

• REST (micro) services
• Modern Web applications
• Web sites
• Integrations apps
• Scheduled tasks

Hot provides simple APIs for dealing with databases (SQL/NOSQL), security and HTTP.

Apps developed with Hot share the following characteristics:

• Coded with a dynamic language
• Maps/Dictionaries are central
• Code is non blocking
• Exposed APIs massively use deferred objects

The entry point for developing a Hot app is the hotcommand bundled with the framework. this command let you create an app project and configure it.

Hot applications can be run as a standalone package or in any JEE7 compatible application server.