In short, there are increasing capabilities to code (production-ready-ish) data science algorithms in Java and if not in Java then call other languages from Java.

A big new developer survey shows that Python has finally passed Java in the programming language popularity wars, propelled by its propensity for use in machine learning and data science projects.

Java -- which first came to fruition in the mid 1990s -- may have taken its place among the legacy languages of the industry, but its developers are enjoying the highest levels of job satisfaction ...

Write, build, and run an example application that persists data to and from a relational database using Hibernate, JPA, and the repository pattern.

Java, of course, is a favorite for cloud developers on Azure and other cloud platforms, while Python is the darling language for AI, data science, machine learning and other workloads.

Python is tying with Java as the second most popular programming language behind JavaScript, according to developer analyst RedMonk's latest ranking.