I agree. The best thing about Java was the library ("One library to rule them all..."). The language was so, so, mainly a better C++ + GC. I never liked it, but Swing, threading, BigInteger, AWT, man! coming from C++ it was a boon.

The next thing I moved to Python, there I found the library and the language fun to use.

Now I am starting to look back at JVM because of Scala and Clojure.