[nl]

I'm currently using Spring MVC (I haven't found a good relatively lightweight Guice-based Web framework yet)

I'm experimenting with Guice+Jersey+Angular.JS. It's a nice combination (if you want to do JS applications rather than the traditional MVC thing).

I've tried Sitebrickes[1], but the lack of documentation was a problem.

5. Java means using checked exceptions.

I think most people now accept that Java should have defaulted to using unchecked exceptions, and checked exceptions should only be for very rare cases. It's a mistake, but you are right: things like Spring make it a lot better in that regard.

[1] https://github.com/dhanji/sitebricks

[murz]

Jersey actually has reasonable support for the traditional MVC thing too, you just return a Viewable from your actions [1]. I think out-of-the-box Jersey only supports JSP templates but it's easy to write custom view processors, I hacked one up for Mustache templates a few months ago [2].

[1] http://sleeplessinslc.blogspot.com/2012/02/jersey-jax-rs-mvc...

[2] https://github.com/murz/jersey-mustache/blob/master/src/main...