Seam

After yesterday's rant about layers upon layers of code and XML based dependency injection I found Norman Richard's blog about a new web framework called Seam from JBoss. Apparently Gavin King, the guy who brought us Hibernate, is involved in this as well. That's a very good sign. From what I've read it looks like this might be just what I'm looking for. It's brand new and will undoubtedly have rough spots and missing functionality, but it really does seem to be headed in the right direction.