Lots of marketing backed by lots of money.. I remember trying to use Java in the Java2 days when every magazine would tell you how it's great, but the reality w

Lots of marketing backed by lots of money.. I remember trying to use Java in the Java2 days when every magazine would tell you how it's great, but the reality was that I was wasting a lot of time working around bugs in the Java libraries (and once even a bug in the JVM itself).