What does an API look like? Sometimes, says Brian Pagano ... Google mimicked the APIs for the Java platform. This lets developers build Android applications using the Java programming language.

Request handling is the bread and butter of Java web application development. In order to respond to requests from the network, a Java web application must first determine what code will respond ...

For the previous decade, Google had been arguing in lower courts that it didn't infringe copyright law when it re-implemented Java for ... what an API was. That seemed like a bad sign for Google ...