java stack in ubuntu can be installed mostly via apt-get, ie jdk + netbeans. I guess it depends on which particular jvm framework you're talking about on top of

java stack in ubuntu can be installed mostly via apt-get, ie jdk + netbeans. I guess it depends on which particular jvm framework you're talking about on top of that as to how dicey it gets but for grails it's as simple as installing groovy, grails and the netbeans plugin for dev. I've had no more issues with configuring a grails stack than configuring a rails or django stack, are you referring to some other kind of java framework here?