As hackerboos suggested, try Scalatra [1], the Sinatra of Scala frameworks (eg, simple, lightweight). As for not knowing Java, there's not a whole lot of carry

As hackerboos suggested, try Scalatra [1], the Sinatra of Scala frameworks (eg, simple, lightweight). As for not knowing Java, there's not a whole lot of carryover from Java at the language level. There is at the JVM level obviously, but you can ignore JVM tuning and bytecode and whatnot till later. In fact, I actually found learning Haskell to be more valuable than Java in understanding Scala. Learn You A Haskell [2] is one of the best general programming books I've read, Lipovaca is excellent at explaining complicated functional programming concepts. [1]: http://scalatra.org/ http://scalatra.org/ [2]: http://learnyouahaskell.com/ http://learnyouahaskell.com/