I’d be happy to compare Java applets to any of Python’s browser-based capabilities. Apples to applets comparisons For 20 years, Java applets made it possible to run Java code in a browser. Python has ...

Thomas Goldstein argued on behalf of Google. During his presentation, a sequence of justices questioned Google’s argument that copyright does not protect the declaring code. In simple terms, Google ...

The Java APIs were always intended to be used freely by anyone, Van Nest insisted, because doing so would promote the growth and popularity of Java. “Oracle had no investment, none of the risk.

That's the question before the 10-person jury considering the epic Oracle v. Google case. Both sides delivered their closing arguments Monday in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco.

The output from running the above is shown next. The output shows that the package information described in the MANIFEST.MF’s file is available to Java code.

An API is not exactly a dictionary, but it’s close enough to one that Oracle v. Google poses a huge problem. Technically, you can program in Java without using the 37 Java API packages at issue.

Google successfully argued APIs cannot be copyrighted in a 2012 case, but the ruling was overturned by a federal appeals court that found Oracle could copyright parts of Java. In closing arguments ...