Ever since I was first forced to learn Java in University I have had a dislike for it. From the very first day it just seemed like a bloated clunky C++, and the JVM just always seemed like a waste of resources. However as my systems got faster the trade-off of having the JVM running for the few applications that may need it seemed like a reasonable one.


At work and at home it literally seems that every time I sit down at a different computer I get a notification saying that the JVM needs to updated. I then have to click through several things, often including a pop-up trying to sneak a Yahoo toolbar onto my system. While most products get better over the years it seems that Java and the JVM is just as buggy and annoying as it was ten years ago.

Then today just by browsing Google images I went to a site to downloading a picture of a women knitting (long story watch twit.tv/nsfw59). Immediately the browser window flashed and I got a fake pop-up saying my system was being cleaned. I ran my Virus scanned and low and behold there were several virus all in the Sun JVM directories and JVM temp files.

After cleaning the virus I started planning my next clean install, which is well over due already because Windows 7 is making me lazy with Windows maintenance stuff. The first thing I thought off is why do I even need a JVM anymore? What uses it? The only must have app that I every used was Open Office because I was too cheap to buy Microsoft Office. Now I use Google Docs for everything. So the only thing that Java is good for is the few random web games that may use Java and those I can live without.

So I keep this buggy, security sieve, POS program running in the background all the time just on the off chance that I may find a web game good enough to risk playing it, or find a reason why I need Open Office more than Google Docs.

As of now Java is off of my system, and I feel much better already. I can not think of any application that will compel me to re-install it. I just can not believe I have left it in my system tray for so long eating resources and leaving me open to all kinds of security holes.