Sorry, I responded because you were being kind of a downer. But since we're whipping it out, I was doing JNI before it was called JNI. JNI wasn't introduced till 1.1. I did six straight years of nothing but server-side Java (well, also some Perl and kernel hacking during that time). Using JNI to call reentrant C functions using heavily shared memory was where the core technology resided. This code was hit by up to one million simultaneous users and didn't blink (links on AOL's front page). I know better than most what the right tool is for the job, maybe even you.

I just think you should to turn your frown upside down.