For all the talk of lighter, leaner Java web development things still seem to be pretty difficult. Not to say they are as bad they were in the J2EE days, but pretty tough nevertheless.
When you’ve had a look over what is available in Ruby on Rails you start to realise just how far even supposedly light Java frameworks like Spring have to go.
With Rails the easy stuff really is easy, and the tough stuff doesn’t look too bad either.
Where are the tools to make Java web development as pain free? The tools are there, the language is superb, no language has a better tool or library ecosystem. All that is needed is something to bind it all together into a cohesive whole.
