Right now I work for a large European bank with Java EE and Wicket. I only touch an xml every 2 months or so. I'm not saying it's better than RoR for example

Right now I work for a large European bank with Java EE and Wicket. I only touch an xml every 2 months or so. I'm not saying it's better than RoR for example in this regard, but Java EE has come a long way since people here used it, and even if it's still not your cup of tea, you should check out Play framework. I've had personal projects in .NET and I can say that there is a lot more boilerplate and spaghetti code there.