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Fair enough. I was pleasantly surprised how much ASP MVC had cribbed from Rails, and it sounds like I'd likely be similarly enthused about new JEE developments. I have noticed the trend towards annotation-driven development and moving away from configuration in Java frameworks and heartily approve.

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Sinatra -> JAX-RS (of JEE 6)

Rails -> Spring MVC (albeit we still don't have a mature ActiveRecord but I concur that the Java world prefers the Repository pattern a'la DataMapper/Merb)

The whole Rails ecosystems is pretty much:

1) Spring MVC

2) ORM (Hibernate/JPA2 or one of the newest tool is Spring-Data)

3) Maven == bundler + rake + gem

4) JUnit

5) Some sane folder structure

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