I completely agree, though this is where I take issue with both the Java community and with managers and architects who have pushed for Java to be standard outside of the enterprise realm. I don't hate the language, I dislike the people who try to fit the square plug into the round hole. It's taking a lot of explaining to a lot of people at my workplace/university (a Java school naturally) that when developments teams are segregated into 1/2 person teams, have high turnover, and spread widely across an organization, using Java just doesn't make sense. It makes a lot more sense to use an easily approach scripting language such as Python or PHP in this case. But yet I had several Java evangelists literally screaming at me over our decision to go with PHP. In the end we won out, we built a solution that has run flawlessly (knock on wood) and the Java evangelists were moved to other departments.
