You might want to work through "Core Java Servlets and Java server Pages" available free at http://pdf.coreservlets.com/ http://pdf.coreservlets.com/. A good un

You might want to work through "Core Java Servlets and Java server Pages" available free at http://pdf.coreservlets.com/ http://pdf.coreservlets.com/. A good understanding of servlets and jsp will stand you in good stead when you graduate to frameworks like Struts. Likewise you might want to play around with basic JDBC before you look at ORMs like Hibernate or Cayenne. As far as frameworks go my reccomendation is to use Wicket. It avoids a lot of the cruft of Struts.