Check out GWT's CssResource support, which is a much more powerful version of Less backed by a real compiler instead of a collection of regexes: http://code.goo

Check out GWT's CssResource support, which is a much more powerful version of Less backed by a real compiler instead of a collection of regexes: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/CssResource http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/CssResource I agree that most of the Java web bits (including pretty much all the popular web frameworks) are, for lack of a better term, enterprisey crap. It saddens me a bit that GWT isn't more popular - there's a lot of innovation and power there that gets ignored simply because the framework's written in Java. IMHO, Rails and Django et al are just kind of standard web MVC frameworks that happen to be implemented on fun-to-write languages: the only thing out there that has the real "right" approach to web _application_ dev is GWT, which is fundamentally difference from all the rest (per the Google Maps/Wave team, Wave would not have been possible without GWT).