[kiwidamo]

You should look at the Play Framework (www.playframework.org) if you'd like to see rapid Java.

Agree that Java is verbose though. Java7 will improve things only slightly.

[shiftb]

I've seen that before. Interesting technology. Spring Roo shows some improvement in that regard too (although not the compiling after changes part).

I've actually gotten to use groovy/grails for a lot of new projects/enhancements and that is making my job much nicer.