Editing Java (programming language) (section)

== Criticism ==
{{Main|Criticism of Java}}
Criticisms directed at Java include the implementation of generics,<ref>{{cite web
 |last=Arnold
 |first=Ken
 |date=June 27, 2005
 |title=Generics Considered Harmful
 |url=https://weblogs.java.net/blog/arnold/archive/2005/06/generics_consid_1.html
 |publisher=java.net
 |access-date=September 10, 2015
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010002142/http://weblogs.java.net/blog/arnold/archive/2005/06/generics_consid_1.html
 |archive-date=October 10, 2007
}}</ref> speed,<ref name=Jelovic /> the handling of unsigned numbers,<ref>{{cite web
 |last=Owens |first=Sean R.
 |url=http://darksleep.com/player/JavaAndUnsignedTypes.html
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220171410/http://darksleep.com/player/JavaAndUnsignedTypes.html
 |archive-date=February 20, 2009
 |title=Java and unsigned int, unsigned short, unsigned byte, unsigned long, etc. (Or rather, the lack thereof)
 |access-date=2011-07-04
}}</ref> the implementation of floating-point arithmetic,<ref>{{cite web
 |last=Kahan
 |first=William
 |date=March 1, 1998
 |title=How Java's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere – ACM 1998 Workshop on Java (Stanford)
 |url=http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf
 |publisher=Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley
 |access-date=June 4, 2011
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905004527/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf
 |archive-date=September 5, 2012
 |url-status=live
}}</ref> and a history of security vulnerabilities in the primary Java VM implementation [[HotSpot (virtual machine)|HotSpot]].<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2010/10/18/have-you-checked-the-java.aspx
 |title=Have you checked the Java?
 |access-date=December 23, 2011
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921140402/http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2010/10/18/have-you-checked-the-java.aspx
 |archive-date=September 21, 2012
 |url-status=dead
}}</ref>
Developers have criticized the complexity and verbosity of the Java Persistence API (JPA), a standard part of Java EE. This has led to increased adoption of higher-level abstractions like Spring Data JPA, which aims to simplify database operations and reduce boilerplate code. The growing popularity of such frameworks suggests limitations in the standard JPA implementation's ease-of-use for modern Java development.<ref>{{cite book
|last=Chidester
|first=Ashlan
|title=Java Persistence API, Jenkins and AWS
|url=https://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=none&isbn=9798224253951
|access-date=September 16, 2024
|isbn=9798224253951
}}</ref>