Which is the most stable linux distro for developing java based web applications???

Debian?

Irrespective.

java? Why?

why?

Use oracle linux, it’s the same quality

Well java has some good web development frameworks which will make my job easy.

CentOS is a good choice for stability

Talking about the stability Ubuntu 16.04 is throwing some kinda exception while installing on my new laptop.

2018 and you want to use java? xD

Why wats wrong in that.

@Fatboy If you are starting fresh and don't have legacy stuff to deal with there are better alternatives. Java as is is slow with features and with Oracle behind it pushing commercial licence as of next year I think you can do better. If you however want to stick with that stack take a look at Kotlin. New .NET Core is also pretty awesome and is gaining more and more traction. Ruby on Rails is well payed and very good but this depends where you live and how are your job perspectives. It's your decision after all but I really think you can make your life better by not doing Java.

Well java 8 onwards has various new feature which are way better that .net framework.

@Fatboy Pls name just one feature that is better in Java than C#. But let me save you the time, there is none. Kotlin is nice though and has some really good foundation.

@Fatboy use golang and rust if you can, more funny projects to work with. Also @jeeper is right about best os for deployment.