No, J2EE's original idea was to separate wheat from chaff, i.e. good programmers from mediocre ones. Good programmers would then work on containers and mediocre ones would write standardized apps to deploy into those containers, with containers being easily interchangable. In this worldview it's irrelevant whether those standardized apps are developed with lots of XML, or convention over configuration or whatever, because mediocre programmers won't complain.

Now as much as this worldview is flawed, this is just one of the manifestations of an attempt to make software development easier, which is, of course, a noble goal that even Node.js aspires to.