Of course (I've been a hardware/software developer since c. 1976) but Java apps seem to have a terrible dependence on the Java runtime version. It could be sloppy programming or it could be bugs in the runtime which programmers have "empirically" worked their way around and then get caught when the bug is fixed.
The "internet" has generated a huge number of programmers who have no experience of building robust apps. It's very easy to knock up apps for that type of environment where you have a very visual user interface which immediately shows what is going on, and especially with the various tools one can generate code at a rapid rate. The fact that on the www no two things ever look the same and this is seemingly accepted by the public (no browser out there can actually properly print the displayed page for every type of website structure, for example) merely facilitates sloppy programming. Whereas embedded systems programmers have to be a whole lot more careful; a (e.g.) temperature controller which has bugs that affect its operation is completely useless, and they are hard to find nowadays whereas web developers are two a penny.