Over the years, I have been a parallel user of Visual Studio and JDK since its 1.1 days. But looking at the last couple of releases , Java seems to be accumulating more FAT at a faster rate than any other SDK. Java does not need to compete with rediculous language features with any other language. Its plus is portability and that's where the argument stops. and dont they say 'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. '