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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Regardless, thanks to Android using Java APIs, Java developers feel right at home with Android, even if it doesn’t come with a coffee cup logo on it.

The table for the May 9 decision was set on Dec. 4, 2013, when Judge S. Jay Plager of the D.C.-based Federal Court of Appeals opined in a hearing that the Java APIs could be considered software ...

Java 24 includes the release of the Steam Gatherers API, which supports custom intermediate operations, allowing stream pipelines to transform data in ways that are difficult when using built-in ...

Alsup compared APIs to a library, with each package as a bookshelf in the library, each class a book on the shelf, and each method a chapter out of a how-to book.

Juge William Alsup ruled that the structure, sequence, and organization of 37 Java APIs were not covered under copyright law, wiping out Oracle’s best hope at damages in its infringement case ...

The API, along with Python, Java, and Golang software development kits (SDKs), will give DevOps, IT operations, and managed service providers, ...