Do you use Java for web development? If so, why? There are multiple choices when it comes to web development languages and frameworks including Ruby/Rails, PHP/CakePHP (or Zend, or CodeIgnitor, etc...), Groovy/Grails (yes this runs on the JVM, but it's not 'Java' ), ASP/.NET (pick a language like C#), Python/Django, etc...

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I can think of few out top of my head easily:
* The java based server are more stable and can sustain large valume of hits with good performance.
* Java has big community and great libraries and framework to choose from.
* Great IDE and tools
* Many choices of Build Tools
* Many prooven framework already in use, by large and trustable corporate
* Easier to get job, or other way around to find programmer.

... those are my top choices atm. :)

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