[edwinnathaniel]

From what I know, JavaEE 6 IoC doesn't require interface so that may cut the code a little bit further. The thing about Java ecosystem is that they rely heavily on IoC/Interface for testing and I can't really blame them because that set-up guarantee super fast unit-tests unlike Rails ActiveRecord (in fact there's a little bit of movement recently in the Rails community that picked up from Java).

ASP.NET MVC won't have much gain over Spring MVC/JAX-RS. In fact, there's nothing similar to JAX-RS in ASP.NET MVC (you'd have to write your own stuff here and there and wire them together, not as straightforward as JAX-RS).

This is an excellent story to share both from technical perspective (Java+Frameworks => Django+Python+Pythonic mindset) and from recruiting perspective. I hope one day you could share (perhaps in slides/presentation style) the actual code and technique in details.

Mind if I ask you where in Europe? (Country/City?) For a while I thought Europe is Rails heavy.