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I actually found Java + Play! to be very productive and fun to develop. Have done 3 projects in that combo already.

I agree with this - it is really weird to me to dismiss an entire language and ecosystem because many of it's popular tools are configured through XML. You don't need to follow along with what everyone else is doing.

I'm writing a java web app without any xml at all. The servlet 3.0 api has some pretty nifty annotations.

that already massive amounts :)