While you were getting your coffee, Java application development changed–again. In a world driven by rapid change and innovation, it’s ironic that APIs are making a comeback. Like the coding ...

Programming with APIs is a valuable enhancement to the software development lifecycle, in part because using APIs helps formalize our thinking about systems. As you’ve seen in this two-part article, ...

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 ...

Modern operating systems can support extraordinarily large volumes of users, but run into limitations with threads to support them due to CPU and memory constraints. Java historically has dealt with ...

“API” is an acronym for application programming interface, a set of protocols that allows two software programs to communicate. APIs are used to power web applications and integrate different software ...

Developers can feel some relief now that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Google in its landmark copyright case versus Oracle. Oracle sued Google more than a decade ago, claiming that the ...

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 ...