Unsurprisingly, there's been some link traffic generated from Greenspun's Java is the SUV... posting. I've see blog postings, and a thread in the SeaJUG mailing list, and the ultimate signal of success, and entry on the Bileblog. I've no problem with dissent, but I'm disappointed by the quality of the critique. Much of the critique is snide "people in acadamia don't know what's going on" or "undergraduates are stupid", or such like. There's a disturbing (to me) inability to admit that maybe there really are some problems with Java, J2EE, JSP, or JDBC. I know when I go to SeaJUG I always hear grousing and grumbling about J2EE this, EJB that. But have someone attack Java as the problem, and suddenly all eyes are blind and all ears are deaf.

What Greenspun said isn't really anything new. Lots of people have been saying the same kinds of things for quite some time. Charles Miller was good enough to provide some code microbenchmarks that illustrate some of the problems with Java. Greenspun's post is the latest commentary on the fact that Java (and C#) have their problems, and that there is still quite a way that we can go when it comes to the foundations that we use to build systems.