I like Java. I am able to be quite productive with it along with Spring and Guava. Hibernate, though somewhat finicky, makes dealing with databases almost tri

I like Java. I am able to be quite productive with it along with Spring and Guava. Hibernate, though somewhat finicky, makes dealing with databases almost trivial. I honestly don't see any reason to learn Scala other that syntactical simplicity. That said, I love Clojure -- it forces me to think differently and I like that. Some people hate the java ecosystem --Maven, ant, gradle etc. etc. I find Maven to be incredibly useful , though not simple. Cruise Control with Maven and Junits simplify code management greatly. Then there is Servlet 3.0 specification with standardized async support. My benchmarks on spring async controllers on Tomcat 7.041 show mindboggling improvements for some my particular use cases that involve several Webservice Apis . I thought I would put it out here. I have witnessed no fall of Java. Only better hype from other language proponents.