This article is a little sensationalist.<p>Java is a programming language used for an awful lot of things, everything from high performance Stock Exchanges, down to tiny embedded programs. Docker is a container abstraction layer --- there is no comparison to be made.<p>The notion that Java was the "run anywhere language" and therefore Docker has removed that requirement is also silly. An ARM executable will not run on a Docker which is on an x86 Host. But... a Java program will. Docker is about making the environment portable... but the program still has to be explicitly written to run in said environment -- while a Java program still does not have that requirement.