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First, Apple isn't removing Java from OS X. They will stop shipping their customized version of Java in several years.

Second, every popular piece of software has vulnerabilities. So if this warrants the removal of Java, you should remove Safari and the BSD kernel from OS X as well.

There is no BSD kernel in OS X. The entire OS is Darwin running an XNU kernel that has a BSD layer within it. There is no way to remove the BSD layer without removing the entire OS.

"There is no way to remove the BSD layer without removing the entire OS"

Yup, that's the joke I was making... grandparent comment would have us remove all our software...

There is an awful lot of enterprise software that is built on Java, and security vulnerabilities are going to happen, be it in Java or in Safari or any other piece of software you happen to use.

I'd like to see a list of OS X apps using Java. Some may be using Java apps without knowing it. Some P2P apps come to mind.

If by "remove" you mean "not install as a default component of the OS" then yes.