No. In fact, Google uses it to build their web apps (GWT). Its not going away, rather it keeps expanding and morphing to fit new emerging needs. To hackers w

No. In fact, Google uses it to build their web apps (GWT). Its not going away, rather it keeps expanding and morphing to fit new emerging needs. To hackers who feel tied down by the rigid structure of statically typed languages, it probably seems dead. Higher level loosely typed interpreted languages seem to be the growing trend now. Dead on the Client? I don't think so. Does no one here code in Eclipse? Azureus and several other really good client apps are Java. It is a very attractive choice considering the wide range of classes in the core API and in open source libraries. Besides GWT, Java web development sucks though, IMHO. JSF did not improve things much. They are trying to add AJAX features but it just doesn't work. Its too cumbersome for hackers to work with IMHO.