Crazy. My first job was Java for about a year (in 1996-97) and after that I ignored it and hoped it would go away and not overtly hurt me.
The bizarre thing is that I don't know of any software that I use other than (I believe) gmail that's actually written in Java (and I don't think gmail qualifies as a "normal" Java deployment).
as much as people rave about rails, python or any other language, the web actually runs mostly on java (and some .net). Most financial sites, brokerage houses, banks and many more websites run with java.
Just b.c you hear about rails or django all the damn time, doesn't mean they are widely used. They are just trendy frameworks.
(Php is the other language that run the rest of the web.).
The bizarre thing is that I don't know of any software that I use other than (I believe) gmail that's actually written in Java (and I don't think gmail qualifies as a "normal" Java deployment).