The growth of jabba da code, er Java code is directly releated to the corporate acknowledgement for Business to Business solutions. Now that more companies have invested in B2B solutions via Java, they are discovering what a fat pig it is, but with so many resources invested its to late to back out now... Plus processors will always get faster.

For the next several years Java will ..bring the bread home(which in this industry is quite an accomplishment), because of the massive investment that's being put into it, NOT because of it's portability, flexibility or ease of coding.