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.

Android shouldn't be seen as transformative because the Java APIs perform "the same purpose" in both Java and Android. This slide notes that Google only wrote 23 percent of Android, relying on ...

Of the 166 Java packages, 129 were not violated in any way. Of the 37 accused, 97 percent of the Android lines were new from Google and the remaining three percent were freely replicable under the ...

Google countered that the Java language has always been "free and open" to use—and that included re-implementing Java APIs. Sun and its CEO Jonathan Schwartz accepted Android as a legitimate, if ...

Google v. Oracle. It's a sensational case. A battle of tech heavyweights -- and a software copyright case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Millions of dollars are at stake. And the ...

Android will be using OpenJDK, an open source-licensed version of Java SE that has been in development since 2007 (before Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and became the de facto owner of Java).

The work on the new Java EE security API is ongoing, and Kosowski said the Oracle team is open to external input. Check out the Java EE Security Spec page to find out more. There is also a GitHub play ...

Android developers are free to use Java, just not its APIs. Google says that’s nonsense, and it has strong arguments to back up its position. Can you copyright an API?

The Vector API gives Java developers everything they need to tap into CPU-level performance gains for numerically intensive operations. If there is one thing you can describe as an obsession for ...

KEMP Technologies has expanded the automated application deployment capabilities of its LoadMaster product with a new Java API. The new API automates deployment of application delivery services in ...