You mention you read some where but can you please re-read it because I guess when it was written the author would be comparing the JAVA with C++ / Fortran / C etc.
Also there is an old post you can read about the testability of security in http://www.veracode.com/blog/2010/06/which-tastes-better-for-security-java-or-net/
you can see both are same almost....
