[rlawson]

if you choose Java, don't slow yourself down with full J2EE stack. Stick with Tomcat + Stripes (or any MVC layer) + Hibernate or iBatis + Spring or Guice

[roam]

Or go for the Play framework: http://www.playframework.org/

[manish_chhabra]

Thanks I checked out both Play Framework and Stripes Presentation Frameworks. There is so much out there, it is amazing!