I don't even use JSP/JSTL, I do straight HTML, CSS and JavaScript for the front end now and use a CMS for all of my static templating (by-by tiles). The only th

I don't even use JSP/JSTL, I do straight HTML, CSS and JavaScript for the front end now and use a CMS for all of my static templating (by-by tiles). The only thing I use Java for now is RESTful services using JAX-RS. I do use JPA for my data access so for the most part, if I am just doing CRUD, I can generate the JPA class and the RESTful service off of that class without "writing" java. It is a far less convoluted stack and is far more efficient at getting work done quickly.