“We thus decline any invitation to declare the protection of software programs should be the domain of patent law, and only patent law.” -- Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc. (Fed. Cir. May 9, 2014) ...

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, declaration ...

It was revealed a week ago, through a Jury vote, that Google did not infringe on Oracle's Java patents in a case that has been ongoing since mid-April, however, the issue of whether Google breached ...

Java was created over 25 years ago, and it is still one of the most popular programming languages. In this article, I will present an overview of how Java has grown to today's complex system and why ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

JArchitect provides valuable analysis and information, but the cost means this is not a casual purchase, if you’re spending your own money and not your company’s. Once you get past “Hello World,” code ...

JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a more flexible technology than servlets because it can respond to dynamic changes at runtime. Can you imagine a common Java class that has this dynamic capability too? It ...