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, ...

A great deal of Java programming -- from conditional statements to iterative loops -- deals with the evaluation of true or false values. When you work with the JDK's Streams API and Lambda functions, ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

An extension to Java that provides a programming interface (API) for implementing server-side programs written in Java (Java servlets). See servlet. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

Oracle ORCL recently announced the release of Java 22, the newest version of the widely used programming language. This update brings a slew of improvements focused on making developers' lives easier ...

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 ...

Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle’s effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable ...

Oracle’s legal battle to break itself off a chunk of the smartphone market by attacking Android looks dead in the water today, after a federal judge who recently finished presiding over the six-week ...