========================= Essential Characteristics ========================= Peaceful Coexistence A TinCan webapp is a Bottle webapp. You can also do things the Bottle way… in the same webapp! Bottle-style webapps have access to the same Chameleon templating engine that TinCan uses. No Configuration Just make a tree of appropriately-named files, and TinCan will figure it all out. The file tree defines the routes, much like in a web server. Header Directives Can Get You a Lot Need to have one controller associated with multiple views? TinCan can do that! See ``#python`` in the :ref:`header-directives` section.