Sure, universities embraced it in the late 90s because it was easier to teach to undergrads, and CS programs were becoming cash cows. But, the researchers that

Sure, universities embraced it in the late 90s because it was easier to teach to undergrads, and CS programs were becoming cash cows. But, the researchers that I knew certainly weren't using it for their own Computer Science research (aside from VMs and heterogeneous environments). Yeah, Jini was cool! And Tuple spaces, etc. There were some cool things being built on Java, but few people were embracing it as a silver bullet.