When to use interfaces in Java. Interfaces are very useful for decoupling code and implementing polymorphism.We can see an example in the JDK, with the List interface: ...

Oracle's Android appeal argues that 37 lines of Java API code should claim the same copyright protections as a creative work. But that's not how the law -- or the tech industry -- works.

Next up was Mark Reinhold, Oracle's chief architect for Java SE, who worked at Sun before the acquisition. Reinhold compared Google's copying of declaring code to using key parts of a Harry Potter ...