This sounds like every project that I've ever been on. My co-workers could have written a series of these types of posts: * MVCless GWT * Makeless Builds *

This sounds like every project that I've ever been on. My co-workers could have written a series of these types of posts: * MVCless GWT * Makeless Builds * Eclipseless Java IDEs * Hibernateless ORMs * Freemarkerless Templating I've seen this story many many times. I'll give you one guess as to how many of these *less solutions were worth the effort put into them.