Try other frameworks like Play, Spring,before you are confident to speak out the word "productive", try other frameworks from other languages like Rails before you are confident about start up speed
I tried rails once. Startup was fast, but after 3 months we got stuck and things weren't so fast anymore.
Modern Java EE let's you start about as fast as rails, especially when starting from a good Maven archetype. The code is immensely simplified. I got a backend service with JAX-RS and CDI running in literally no time!
Modern Java EE let's you start about as fast as rails, especially when starting from a good Maven archetype. The code is immensely simplified. I got a backend service with JAX-RS and CDI running in literally no time!