good going.
ive got a strange feeling that java may be used soon by tools programmers to develop their apps coz it makes sense. its good for developing good gui’s (clean and maintainable ones, unlike visual c++), nice features also for handling files etc, something which is essential for tools programming.
So maybe by the time you’ve mastered java the industry might add this to the list of things a tools programmer should know and you’ll have a leg up..