What's the best Java web framework for my needs? [closed]

Question

I'm creating an web application for company intranet, because other parts of this system are written in Java, so for integration purposes Java was chosen as a web frontend.

There are the requirements:

• it has to be simple to learn in short period of time
• it has to support MVC pattern
• no extended xml configuration
• application will consist of many form that user will fill, and some js to help with it
• good IDE plugins that will help with development

I was thinking of Wicket/Spring MVC/Stripes

What are your recommendations regarding those requirements? What other frameworks, that are probably better for my application should I look at?

Also: can you comment those three frameworks on how do they meet my requirements?

Answer 1

Check out Grails; it's the best of Rails and Java. Excellent MVC (including ORM), DRY, and coding-by-convention (no XML config!), very similar to Rails but even better in some ways (IMHO), plus all the stability of the Java platform and access to all of its excellent libraries.

It uses the JVM-based Groovy scripting language but the learning curve shouldn't be too bad for a Java developer; you can also use straight Java code if you need.