Ah, ill will or using Java as a punching bag was not my intent at all. I was working on this task, and the Java code I referenced was based on a popular Gist to accomplish the same task that I needed to accomplish, with many comments of users adapting (copy/paste programming) the same code for their usage. I felt an 'in the wild' solution was comparable to my novice-level Clojure solution (those more well versed in Clojure would likely write a much better implementation of what I did).
This was meant to be a real world use case where I found my problem solved in Clojure turned out much better than it would have been solved in another language running my choice environment (JavaFX), instead of some arbitrary contrived examples (see Rosetta Code for tons of that).