IMHO - I love to work with java, I've used all kinds of JEE frameworks and my favorite setup is Spring 3 + Spring MVC for almost all sites... If I need to work

IMHO - I love to work with java, I've used all kinds of JEE frameworks and my favorite setup is Spring 3 + Spring MVC for almost all sites... If I need to work on a form filled web site I would use Vaadin or JSF2 + primefaces + EJB 3.1 (EJB 3.1 which is way better then previous versions). Java is great and you can be as productive as you want. Another thing is that the JVM environment is getting richer every year, with more Frameworks and languages. As I said before, Java is a work horse. My fun coding is now in Javascript and Scala, but to work, for me nothing beats Java and it's stack.