[tudelo]

There also is the option to use http://www.gwtproject.org/overview.html. To be honest I do not really recommend it unless one of the driving factors of NOT using angular and the like are that you want to avoid javascript. It works, but something about it just feels wrong... It's not slow or hard to use but you run in to the common problem of extremely unhelpful errors such as null pointers with nonsensical names in the generated javascript when you make a code mistake.