>>13
NO JAVA. It's unproductive, complicated, and slow. In the end, you'll end up taking as much complexity as C, but you will end up using a half assed engine. If you're going for something easy without caring much for the result (which is what you should do first, BTW), go get something simpler, avoid Java at all costs. If you want to be serious, then don't use Java, use C and C++.
>>14
Not at all. Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption was written in real language, like everything else. Only its high-level scripting engine was Java.