os.name is defined as:

> The following names have currently been registered: 'posix', 'nt', 'java'.

In my understanding, the value `'java'` is for the benefit of jython, which is rather poorly. Other third-party implementations which may or may not have a "full os module" (e.g. ironpython) do not -- as far as I can tell -- get to be registered against this value, and Python 3.3's addition of `sys.implementation` seems like a more reliable (and better supported) way to perform implementation-specific checks.

Therefore I feel `os.name == 'java'` only exists to confuse readers of the documentation, but doesn't really provide any value, and should be removed.