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Yes, yes, yes. Geert Bevin asks How badly do you want hotswap to improve? on TSS. I see this kind of topic as an indicator that at least some Java guys are beginning to understand the subtler aspects of Rails productivity. In fact, one of the first responses was by Bill Burke of Jboss (who I'm sure would love SEAM to be a viable alternative to Rails):

Not only would full Hot swap be useful for AOP, but it would also be very useful to enable RoR like development where coding->runtime is lightning fast. Classloader tricks only take you so far.

Ahh, behold the marvels of competition.