JSR-353, the Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P), has reached final approval ballot this month. JSON-P (similar to JAXP) consists of a Streaming API (similar to StAX) and an Object Model API ...

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 ...

In 2006 email thread, Rubin said that Sun owned the intellectual property and brand for Java and that the Java.lang APIs were copyrighted. Over the next several years his thinking changed.

Google trial ruled that the structure of the Java APIs that Oracle was trying to assert can't be copyrighted at all.

7. API for authorization interceptors Currently, Java EE supports only role-based authentication methods. The API for authorization interceptors will make it easier to implement rule-based security.

2. The Java profiler: javap You can consider the Java command-line tool javap a complement to the javac utility. While javac compiles code, the javap utility reverses that compilation and provides ...

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 ...

In this two-part tutorial you’ll learn how to put Java APIs at the heart of your design and development process, from concept to coding. Part 1 starts with an overview and introduces you to ...

Given APIs' ubiquity and importance, it’s understandable that all eyes were on the U.S. Supreme Court’s April 5 ruling in Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc., which addressed two core questions.

Judge: Oracle Java API elements not copyrightable, related claims against Google dismissed Juge William Alsup ruled that the structure, sequence, and organization of 37 Java APIs were not covered ...