no java tools in apt-get

[Thufir]

Why is that whenever I want to do something with Java, I have to muck 
about with path and installing stuff manually.  Is it just that no one 
wants, particularly, to manage java tools?

I don't mean the JDK or JVM itself, I mean third-party JAR's from 
apache.org or other folks.  Netbeans, derby, etc.

Am I the only one in the world who finds path stuff baffling?


-Thufir