Rails-like is a confounding term. If you mean something as comprehensive, I'm not sure there is quite an analog. Although I personally don't usually want some

Rails-like is a confounding term. If you mean something as comprehensive, I'm not sure there is quite an analog. Although I personally don't usually want something as comprehensive. If you mean something that is easy to get started, deals with the most annoying stuff, and gives you the fundamentals to implement an application, then I think there are some good options. Of the Java frameworks we've tested [1], if you are ruling out Play-Java (because of a real or imaginary Scala design preference; I'm not judging that), I personally enjoy the coding style of Rest-Express and DropWizard. Check out the Rest-Express [2] and DropWizard [3] multi-query test implementations for a quick insight into their coding style. (Note the Rest-Express test was contributed by that framework's author.) I'm not sure if this really answers your question, but I think it does speak to my earlier point in this thread that modern frameworks solve the problems I most care about and also (happily) tend to do so more efficiently--with respect to server resources--than the frameworks of a few years ago. [1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7&test=db&l=3k http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=i7... [2] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/master/restexpress/src/main/java/hello/controller/MongodbController.java https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast... [3] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/master/dropwizard/src/main/java/com/example/helloworld/resources/WorldResource.java https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...