html : haml as Java :?

Question

I'm a big fan of haml in place of html/erb in Rails. Is there a similar tool for Java that makes the resulting code just as fast (still compiles to bytecode, after all), but which is less verbose to type/read/edit?

Answer 1

http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/ is the closest to what you're looking for. No significant whitespace to force indentation (as I gather you want from your Hacker News thread), but that's a very controversial feature and Eclipse of all groups is not going to be the one to bring that to Java.