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Re:Why I absolutely love java by pmarin on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @07:05PM (#2195528)
it was designed to deal with massive enterprise apps with complicated dependency trees over multiple architectures

Actually it was originally designed for embedded system with limited resources [1].

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/javah...

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Re:Why I absolutely love java by mbreese on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @07:10PM (#2195540)
Well, at least the JVM was. Java the language was designed to lure C++ shops and not scare them too much. So in that respect, it was designed to be an enterprise class language.
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