WASHINGTON--Microsoft went on the offensive Friday in the antitrust case brought against it by Sun Microsystems, accusing its bitter rival of violating California law through "unfair competition." In ...

In early 2000, JavaWorld published a two-part series I wrote entitled “The Business Case for Java: A Primer for Geeks,” in which I listed the then distinguishing characteristics of both the ...

The legal war between Oracle and Google has been rather muted for the last several months, but there could be a major new twist in the case. Reuters has reported that legal representatives for ...

Naming conventions are important if you're a Java developer. Naming conventions not only make your Java code easier to read, they make your code self-documenting as well. Fellow developers can tell in ...

The ruling that APIs can be copyrighted could make it a lot harder to take advantage of APIs with a direct license With Oracle’s surprise win in federal court today over its Java intellectual property ...

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Lawyers for Oracle and Google gave the judge overseeing their Java patent dispute a tutorial on Wednesday that underscored the complexity of the case between the two companies. Judge William Alsup of ...