Stable? Huh. Never thought of Java that way. Dead, yes, but it was never stable. In my experience I have to set up a custom JVM version for every java application I've come across. Is your experience different?
Dead? Really? It's one of the most popular computer languages. And it constantly evolves and becomes better over time.
For me, Java died with Oracle shenanigans. I moved to C#. Java isn't truly dead yet but I think it will slowly die off because of Oracle. Same as Solaris and SPARC, but a little slower.