JavaScript APIs are more popular than ever, especially now given the fact that so many organizations are now making their back-end services available through RESTful APIs that can be easily invoked by ...

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz took the stand here today as a witness for the defense, and disputed Oracle's claim that Java APIs were proprietary code from Sun. Google's lawyer, ...

The high stakes lawsuit between Oracle and Google is based on claims that Google’s Android infringes Oracle’s copyrights and patents related to Java. This article will attempt to explain the first ...

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 first ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Following a two-week trial, a federal jury concluded Thursday that Google's Android operating system does not infringe Oracle-owned copyrights because its re-implementation of 37 Java ...

Oracle has won an appeal in its four-year old legal battle with Google over the search giant's use of Java technology in its Android mobile operating system, in a development that could have ...

More than a decade ago, Google re-implemented the Java programming language as part of its new Android mobile operating system. Oracle, the owner of Java, then sued Google for copyright infringement ...

A jury has found that Google infringed Oracle’s Java copyrights in Android but could not decide unanimously if the infringement was protected by “fair use.” The jury’s verdict, delivered Monday after ...