By a 6-2 vote, the nation's highest court held that Google's copying of Oracle's Java API was fair use. The ruling means Google won't have to pay billions of dollars in damages to Oracle.

The design of the MIDP UI API. Existing Java developers can get started with the MIDP very quickly because it leverages some proven design patterns in standard Java UI APIs, such as the AWT and Swing.

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.

Fundamentally, an API is a language for communicating between computer programs, and a language like SQL or Java is a type of API. Full-blown computer languages tend to have more complex syntax ...

The Java Persistence API was first released as a subset of the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 specification in Java EE 5. It has since evolved as its own spec, starting with the release of JPA 2.0 in ...

Telephony manager, which is part of the Android application framework, provides a telephony API to user applications. It consists of the android.telephony and android.telephony.gsm Java packages. This ...

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK). The news ...

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 ...

It's not unusual for database developers who move from Microsoft-based .NET platforms into the world of Java development to wonder, 'What's the difference between ODBC and JDBC?' It's a good question.

API Linux: These Bloomberg API libraries cannot be used by Bloomberg Professional terminal users (which use the Desktop API). They are only compatible with the Bloomberg Server API and B-Pipe data ...