Oh you're not alone. I dislike Java as well, but there's no denying the power of the JVM and the ecosystem around it. If you really dig into it and look at it as a polyglot platform with choices like Groovy, Clojure, JRuby, and Scala, it becomes more palatable.

Regardless this post is not about .NET tooling, more about server efficiency and cost. Two areas where I think the JVM is a little further ahead.