[edit insert here - Page lost the earlier part of this comment] - This article has nothing new, just one developer liking Java because of JavaDocs. "I learned

[edit insert here - Page lost the earlier part of this comment] - This article has nothing new, just one developer liking Java because of JavaDocs. "I learned PHP last night..." - Wow, learning PHP in one night, enough to build an opinion that dismisses it for Java [Not that the two solve the same problem] In any case, I don't think most others talking about the API or the toolkit, and as far as I know, no one is dismissing the power of Java's platform (JVM included). Most posts talk about the language itself, and in most cases that is being remedied by languages like Scala, Groovy or even JRuby on the JVM. You get the best of both worlds.