As a research for university i'm looking for some reasons to hate java; post freely.

P.S. Please don't waste your time posting about how good Java is, this is NOT a language war and i'm not trying to prove to the world that Java sucks

Java is not open source (EDIT: depending on your point of view, this may not be necessarily a bad thing)

It lies to you. "Write once run anywhere" my achin' ass...

Well, this is not directly a language issue, but I absolutely hate the java way of using braces. E.g.

void method(bool foo){
    while(foo){
        // Do many lines of nasty stuff
    }
}

instead of proper BSD braces style:

void method(bool foo)
{
    while(foo)
    {
        // Do many lines of nasty stuff
    }
}

It makes a hell out of finding the matching brace and a code with many levels of indentation becomes very hard to read.

All of the above is of course IMHO.

EDIT: fixed the name of the braces style

K&R style has braces on the same line.

You're talking about the BSD style, I guess - or another style with a similar braces style...

OOOPS, sorry I meaned the opposite. Wonder how I mixed them like that...

Yes, java coders often use the `K&R' style and I was refering to `BSD' or `Allman' style.

EDIT: fixed the offending post

Reasons to hate Java:
- because I'm stupid

Really, there is no other reason. To cite the Tao:

If you think that the stupid thing is too harsh, then use this:
- because you don't know it
or maybe even
- because it's not what I use

but in all cases the one "hating" a language will look retarded.

Main reason to hate Java: Java applications almost always appear to run slower and look/feel differently than a native application, despite what Java supporters say.

Secondary reason: If you have a hacker mentality, then the strictness of Java can get in the way. However, that is normally a good thing...

But what I really dislike the most about Java is the mentality that seems to come with it: a program with the complexity of notepad has a 24 month timeline, complete with 400 pages of documentation that covers all 15,000 methods of the reusable KeyboardKeyBackSpace class.

Really? 24 month timeline? Notepad could be written in one sitting, taking no more than three pages of code. I've done a web browser in less than half a page .

FMC: Does it have to be Java? There are plenty of ugly languages out there to pick on, like C++.

I wish I would have such assingments at work. I thik I could whip up a notepad-like thingie in half a day including learning GUI. Of cource I've also seen lots of people overusing class hierarcies and other things commonly used in Java.

Btw, have any of you heard of Brazil National Health Card Project?
linky
http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/2005/sessions/general/scott_tuesday.jsp
From the time the first use case was specified to the time the information system was deployed, only four months had elapsed and 2.5 million lines of code were produced.

IIRC there were couple hundred people working on that project in parallel.

Storing your class system hierarchy inside a jar file/directory structure is ridiculous

That's stupid. I seriously hope that the "research" topic isn't set by the teacher. Also, a lot of the "drawbacks" people have listed above are plain wrong, mostly due to poor understanding so I wouldn't use anything from this thread in a "research" report.

As someone who has never written a line of Java code, my only problem with it is when I'm using a Java-based GUI application.
Despite what Java programmers claim, every Java-based GUI or GUI frontend that I've ever used was unbearably slow. When I have the option, I'll use a native compiled version, even if that means I get an ugly Motif GUI (as I do for Maple).