ok so I played the last couple of hours with:

stripes
eclipse
myeclipse

and testing how simple it is to develop applications. So far I have to say that vraptor2 is much easier to use than stripes, but stripes itself is pretty mighty and easy to use. Specially compared to struts.

Sadly the combination of myeclipse + stripes + jboss doesn't work very well together which means I need to have two installations up and running.

first developing using myeclipse, the jsp editor is just wonderful
second deploy and testing with eclipse wtp

time to find another jsp editor, which is at least as good as the myeclipse editor...