The Java Language has several good design features
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secure, safe (wrt bugs), object-oriented, familiar (to C C++ and even Fortran programmers)
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Java has a very good set of libraries covering everything from commerce, multimedia, images to math functions (under development at http://math.nist.gov/javanumerics)
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Java has best available electronic and paper training and support resources
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Java is rapidly getting best integrated program development environments
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Java naturally integrated with network and universal machine supports potentially powerful "write once-run anywhere (badly)" model
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There is a large and growing trained labor force
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Can we exploit this in Grande Computing / computational science?
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