[enjoy-your-stay]

I think the fact that it eventually ended up as a server app language took everybody by surprise - Sun never saw it as anything like that at inception I'm sure.

Adding JDBC and later nio is probably what got it there the most.

[bb88]

Yes. It was originally meant to be used for interactive television. It then transitioned to the web and to cross platform GUI's. It then transitioned to servers.

[pjmlp]

And rewriting Distributed Objects Anywhere from OpenSTEP/Objective-C into Java EE.