I think the best tutorial/framework book for building a web app from scratch is Agile Development with Rails by David Heinemeier Hansson. If you have a Java ba

I think the best tutorial/framework book for building a web app from scratch is Agile Development with Rails by David Heinemeier Hansson. If you have a Java background, you should also look into Lift/Scala. The Lift web site is found here: http://liftweb.net/ http://liftweb.net/ There's an O'Reilly book on Scala which looks like a solid reference.