I strongly urge you to look into WhiteSpace. It is one of the languages of the future (and it's name is less offensive than the other language I was going to suggest). Much luck!
This also interests me...People say .NET enterprise solutions are much easier to set up than Java EE solutions.So...then what do I, as an aspiring java ee developer get in return for this toughness???Come on people there has got to be something other than platform independance you can offer me....??