This is one of the specific reasons the Stripes Framework (http://stripesframework.org/display/stripes/Home http://stripesframework.org/display/stripes/Home) wa

This is one of the specific reasons the Stripes Framework (http://stripesframework.org/display/stripes/Home http://stripesframework.org/display/stripes/Home) was created. The idea behind it is that most Java frameworks require too much configuration and the start-up time (to get rolling with development) isn't short. Stripes looks to solve both of these problems while making it (actually) fun to do Java development. There's extremely little XML config setup. There's not a single person I know that's familiar with Struts (1 or 2) and/or Spring MVC (or any other Java framework for that matter) that's tried Stripes, learned it in a day or two, and not really liked it. Daoud also has a great book, "Stripes: ...and Java Web Development Is Fun Again" that's a great resource for starting out. In addition, the Stripes community is small enough that you can access the code contributors on a daily basis through IRC or the mail lists. With Stripes-Reload and Stripersist, you can get a CRUD app up and running in under a few minutes--I think that's on par with RoR, isn't it? IMHO, it's worth looking at.