JavaScript is a perfectly reasonable application for the initial stages of application development, I'll grant you that. But it's flawed in the long-term, whe

JavaScript is a perfectly reasonable application for the initial stages of application development, I'll grant you that. But it's flawed in the long-term, when it comes time for someone else to maintain and safely refactor the code as the originators leave and someone else needs to inherit the codebase. That's when the static nature of Java bears fruit. The nice side-effect of fully leveraging its static nature is that you always get the minimal amount of javascript to ship over the wire. (Their "pay as you go" design philosophy.)