According to our research of Washington and other state lists there were 3 registered sex offenders living in Oakville, Washington as of October 07, 2015. The ratio of number of residents in Oakville to the number of sex offenders is 225 to 1.
I thought so as well but accusing to the website https://mojang.com/2015/07/announcing-minecraft-windows-10-edition-beta/ things are changing. I very much doubt they will stop working on the java version since it supports multiplatforms aka making them more money.
You still technically need Java, but it is now downloaded by the Minecraft launcher and stored with the launcher instead of installed across the entire system. If Minecraft is the only reason you have Java installed, you now have no reason to open up your system to Java vulnerabilities.