Java is adequate in any situation that scalability and hardware
independency is needed.

there is a performance handcap compared to c/c++ but the difference
is not big nowadays...

most companies adopt java  manly to do the dinamic web  aplications
(servlets/jsps)

The major reason this question doesn't seem to be getting a lot of
responses is that it almost feels like troll bait :)

Java has pros and cons for all of it's choices. It can be used (quite
successfully) for all of your options.

Although I probably wouldn't write Doom4 in Java