Pintura is a REST-style web framework that utilizes a layered approach to application development that facilitates straightforward, well-designed rich internet applications. Pintura forms the core web framework for Persevere 2.0, and consists of a powerful data modeling and persistence framework called Perstore, in combination with a REST-style web framework. You can read more about the goals and principles behind Pintura, but here we will look at how to get started writing applications.
Pintura-based applications normally consist of server-side data models with three layers: data stores, store models, and model facets. On top of this, different representation handlers (for serializing data to different formats) can be defined, but Pintura comes with a good set of these (including JSON, JavaScript, multipart, and Atom), so usually that is not necessary. This provides a well-structured separation of concerns, distinguishing storage configuration (data stores), core data logic (models), varying capabilities of access to the data (facets), and data serialization (representations). Perhaps the easiest way to understand this approach to take a look at an example application.