After years of Tapestry focus I finally got around to checking out how others are building web apps these days. Spring MVC + REST and Angular seem to be flavours of the day and can create some quite slick solutions. These approaches are still full of boilerplate code, but things are looking a lot better than the early days of Struts.
So far as I can see Tapestry and maybe GWT are still the only one stop shop for cutting out the boiler plate code and having a focus on domain driven design with components instead of these pattern centric low level approaches.
