I keep rewriting the same text over and over, but it comes down to this: I am not surprised you are not finding the people. What these reqs communicate is that you want a JAVA early adopter with experience in the hottest, constantly changing, and highly specialised field of JAVA that commands at 3 years experience +$100K, but you actually want this person's main focus to have been something else. For around a decade. With auxilliary languages and knowledge. Tim, I know hundreds of IT people and I can't think of one that would fit this bill. They're either coders or database deployers -- not both. Not with that many years of specialization.