[zinclozenge]

I'm not the OP, but generally JVM applications are very resource hungry under small loads, although I will concede this matters less as load increases, and the extreme OOP style of programming that Java encourages, in my opinion, leads to a lot of faults that require more operational babysitting than I'm ok with.

I don't have any empirical evidence, just experience. As such I'm very biased against it.