I've noticed in the short time I've been reading this board that there's a lot of java bashing, so I was wondering why people actually think it is so bad. I'm no java fan, but I've used it for some stuff before and it didn't seem terrible to me. An argument used to be that it runs slow as a guro-fied loli, but they've improved a lot in that aspect.
Please give good reasons, rather than stuff like "it's for certified professional consultants" or whatever you guys say.
hahah i use a full blown spring hibernate combo. it actually it's pretty good in terms of connection & db pooling. stateless beans and db data modeling. if you're just writing hello world -ish programs, of course php or pearl is better. but if you want to use appservers over 1000+ connections and wanna manage the sockets/threads and failure means costing your company money, yeah, use java. they've done it to bits. couple it try using php for db connection pooling assholes. you kids have no idea. i'm not even going to bother explaining why 100 lines of xml goop will save you at least twice that amount of self-written, unreliable code. try impl your business logic just using servlet whilst ensuring that the entire process is threadsafe mutually exclusive.