Many Java applications started from the command line take arguments to control their behavior. These arguments are available in the string array argument passed into the application’s static ...

Attorneys for Oracle and Google presented their closing arguments today in a lawsuit over Google's use of Java APIs owned by Oracle in Android. Oracle ...

Did Google's use of Java APIs to build the Android OS amount to "transformative" use, or were they simply stealing at another firm's expense?

To re-implement Java, Google needed to copy the names and argument types of functions like java.lang.Math.max. Otherwise a Java program that used these functions wouldn't work on Google's ...