While amusing, I don't think that's a fair comparison as it's not using any fram...

While amusing, I don't think that's a fair comparison as it's not using any framework or persistence features.

A Java app can be written similarly:

    apt-get install tomcat7
    echo "<html><body>Hello World</body></html>" > /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/ROOT/index.jsp

(This is untested as I don't have an Ubuntu box at hand – the locations depend on your distro, as with Apache installs.)

There actually are sane people in the Java community – underneath the "Java EE" overcomplexity there are some regular old Java web frameworks that are pretty simple and robust. Unfortunately they can be easily overlooked, as the EE community is loud.