obviously, as a JPublish maintainer, I am biased, but if you wonder why Java is not popular among the web designers and developers, is because we: the java developers are not designing web frameworks for non-Java web developers, IMHO.

I was just reading one of the many articles about java web frameworks, example:
http://www.infoq.com/articles/modular-wicket

Everything is nice with such frameworks if .. you know Java. Wicket, and other frameworks too, is great no doubt .... but only if you know Java.

Is this how we want to attract more people to Java? By forcing them to learn the language? Annotating code? c'mon

I have similar issues with JPublish and trying to obscure as much as possible the need for knowing Java, however I am not asking the web Designers to learn Java in order to create a simple web site.

Hey Java Web Frameworks Developers, are we blind??
 
going back to Rails?

:'(