The document discusses various JVM web frameworks including Play, Ratpack, Spring Boot, and Rails. It provides code examples for templating, databases, servers, and other aspects of each framework. It compares the strengths and weaknesses of frameworks like Play, Ratpack, and Spring Boot. It emphasizes that modern JVM web development uses languages like Scala, Groovy, JRuby and Clojure rather than traditional Java web apps with WAR files. The document encourages the audience to pick a framework like Play, Ratpack or Rails and provides the basic commands to create a new project in each.