Oracle said the Java APIs were like a beautiful painting. Google said they were more like a file cabinet. And in the end, Judge William Alsup came closest to agreeing with Google, comparing an API ...

Judge: Oracle Java API elements not copyrightable, related claims against Google dismissed Juge William Alsup ruled that the structure, sequence, and organization of 37 Java APIs were not covered ...

In 2006 email thread, Rubin said that Sun owned the intellectual property and brand for Java and that the Java.lang APIs were copyrighted. Over the next several years his thinking changed.

The new Java EE security API promises to deliver on features such as app portability across Java EE servers and when using modern programming concepts.

Alsup held that the Java APIs in Android are not eligible for protection under U.S. copyright law, but in his order filed Thursday he made it clear that this was a narrow ruling applying only the 37 ...

JSR-353, the Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P), has reached final approval ballot this month. JSON-P (similar to JAXP) consists of a Streaming API (similar to StAX) and an Object Model API ...

Technologies related to Java APIs (application programming interfaces) and JDK (Java Development Kit) form the cornerstone of modern, enterprise-grade software development. Here we explore all the ...

Java APIs for cloud computing, microservices, and REST Programming with APIs comes to the fore with the modern web API: a network-exposed API (NEA), where the boundary between systems is “over ...

Java API definitions In Part 1, I explained the distinction between prescriptive and descriptive API use. In a prescriptive definition, the API drives code creation, whereas in a descriptive ...

A federal appeals court on Friday reversed a federal judge's ruling that Oracle's Java API's were not protected by copyright. The debacle started when Google copied certain elements—names ...