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Looking for a good entrance point to client-server applications

I am looking for a recommendation for a good entrance point for building a client-server application.

The target developers will be students in a course (with at least basic knowledge and experience in programing but not necessarily in the client-server world).

Any suggestions will be appreciated.
A suggestion could be a platform (e.g. node.js, google app engine), programming language, framework, enviorment or anything else that you can think of.

Preferably, I am looking for the following:

  • Should work in linux environment.
  • Easy to learn.
  • Widely used (for available examples online...).
  • Open source.
  • Allows to quickly build a prototype.
Solution

  • Eventually I went with Play Framework.
    As I needed:

    • It works in a linux environment.
    • Is easy to learn.
    • Has great manual and examples.
    • Is open source.
    • Allows to quickly build a prototype from a template or using a manual