Have you ever thought of how tools like Checkstyle or FindBugs perform a static code analysis, or how Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) like NetBeans or Eclipse execute quick code fixes or ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can't blame Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java Platform Group at Oracle, for showing a bit of frustration with Java developers who insist on calling methods that have been deprecated for ...

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, ...