The Oracle v. Google trial continued on day five with more detailed dissection of Java and APIs and the difference, or similarities, between Android and Java. Google's lawyers framed their questions ...

For those of us who regularly write code in Java or a JVM-hosted language (Groovy, JRuby, Jython, etc.), the Java Platform API documentation is a very valuable resource. In fact, it is one of the ...

Java got its start at the cusp of the internet revolution in the early 1990s. It was created by James Gosling and his colleagues at Sun Microsystems, who wanted to use a virtual machine and language ...

Oracle released emergency updates Monday for both Java 6 and Java 7, patching two critical bugs. Oracle's related security alert said that because of the severity of the bugs -- which can be "remotely ...