Jo&#227;o, I agree that the community it's a good reason to chose a certain language over other (That's the case of the PHP projects I do). I had no idea the Java community was so good (I only hear about the CPAN...).

JP, I've seen both Eclipse and Netbeans. They're good IDEs (I can't find so good for Python, and Pydev still sucks) but they don't give me the simpleness of Visual Studio. And yes, I don't like Java mainly for that verbose nature.

For those who are reading this thinking that I hate Java, well, that might be true but NOT my point here. I am just trying to figure out if there are real any advantage in using Java.