Personally, I think this is an important distinction, because almost all of what you said is bound to the java ecosystem but not necessarily to the language. The great things about java are portability, speed of execution, a vast library of well tested tools, and a huge open source community with some very solid offerings.

You still get all that using a JVM language such as Scala or Clojure, and the benefit of some slightly more RAD features (and less boilerplate code).