I was like you a long time ago ;) I hated JEE until I used JEE5 in a project with really good programming peers. Once you understand and adapt to the JEE vision

I was like you a long time ago ;) I hated JEE until I used JEE5 in a project with really good programming peers. Once you understand and adapt to the JEE vision and do not fight it, life is more beutifull. If a lightweight is needed, Nginx+Jetty or Resin is imho better that Tomcat ... until you need to coexist with an app that's Tomcat friendly.