I apologize if that came off wrong, the "everyone's favorite language to hate" was tongue-in-cheek and not intended to infer you had an outright hatred of Java.

I apologize if that came off wrong, the "everyone's favorite language to hate" was tongue-in-cheek and not intended to infer you had an outright hatred of Java. As a parallel in the past I did government contract work (though mine was probably more limited than what you seem to be implying) with Java systems as well.