lockje

Honestly, people still using the getter and setter argument in 2018 as a reason to pick a language should not be taken seriously.

Indeed Java has more boilerplate, but honestly I've never been bothered by it (as you can generate most within your IDE) and because its explicitly written down it can make code more readable.

And Java also has lambda's.

Many of the open source libraries are concrete implementations of the Java EE specs. Hibernate uses JPA, GUICE standarized the CDI implementation (http://googlecode.blogspot.nl/2009/05/javaxinjectinject.html). And many of the technologies offered by Java EE are standarizations of concepts. This is highly valueable for reuseability and not having 10 libraries completely reinventing the wheel.