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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The 37 Java APIs at the center of the Oracle v. Google patent infringement lawsuit are not subject to copyright.

The APIs that might be of interest to developers of Java applications that need to perform source code analysis are the Java Compiler API (JSR 199), the Pluggable Annotation Processing API (JSR ...

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 ...

Telephony manager, which is part of the Android application framework, provides a telephony API to user applications. It consists of the android.telephony and android.telephony.gsm Java packages. This ...

Key Java proponents are up in arms over the planned elimination of private API capabilities, specifically sun.misc.Unsafe, in the upcoming Java Standard Edition 9 release. Although an officially ...