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 to ...

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 ...

You can't blame Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, for showing a bit of frustration with Java developers who insist on calling methods that have been deprecated for ...

While you were getting your coffee, Java application development changed–again. In a world driven by rapid change and innovation, it’s ironic that APIs are making a comeback. Like the coding ...

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, declaration ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Following a two-week trial, a federal jury concluded Thursday that Google's Android operating system does not infringe Oracle-owned copyrights because its re-implementation of 37 Java ...