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 ...

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 ...

The Java API is extensive. The standard JDK comes with over 200 built-in packages containing Java APIs that allow for everything from parsing XML to translating between time zones. When developers add ...

It not only identifies any Java internal API dependency but also suggests alternative classes that you can use instead. There's even a Maven Jdeps plugin, so Java dependency analysis reports can be ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that Google's use of Java APIs owned by Oracle is fair use. The lawsuit against Google, which began in August 2010, is now finally over.

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 ...

The Supreme Court has sided with Google in the long-running Java API copyright case known as Oracle v. Google, finding that Google is legally entitled to use elements of Java APIs in its Android code.

For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the declaring code and the structure, sequence, and organiza- tion of the 37 Java API packages are entitled to copyright protection.

It all goes back to the way Java APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are used in Android. If you want programs to communicate with each other, you need an API, and Oracle thinks it should be ...

Google has announced a move away from Oracle’s proprietary Java APIs. Beginning with the next version of their mobile operating system (Android N), the new standard will be OpenJDK, an open ...