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by joe_developer 4072 days ago
If Java was released today, it would still be valuable. Java is a small, well defined language (without many surprises). Java runs on an open source platform, OpenJDK. The JSR's are incredibly well designed -- Web programming (Servlet, JSP, JSF), Message Driven Beans, JMS, JPA, and JAXB.

If you look at benchmarks of web applications/frameworks, Java-based ones are blazing fast.