Personal opinion: Because Java was all the rage when these people (the programmers) went to college, and so that is what was drilled into them. Many universiti

Personal opinion: Because Java was all the rage when these people (the programmers) went to college, and so that is what was drilled into them. Many universities, too, are working on out-dated development practices, because the supervising professors either have never worked in Industry, and so are stagnated in terms of tool selection (I'm working on a project right now that still uses SVN), so the students think that that is the correct approach. People are slow to change. Last possibility: perhaps Java is a good choice given the nature (cross-compatibility) and relatively fast speed of the modern JVM.