The security of the platform is a primary reason. "Of the six high-impact zero-day vulnerabilities reported since JDK 7 in 2011, three of them would have been prevented if we were able to encapsulate ...

Two years ago its case seemed dead in the water, but Oracle now can pursue its high-profile copyright suit against Google over Android's use of Java.

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 ...

A federal appeals court on Friday reversed a federal judge's ruling that Oracle's Java API's were not protected by copyright. The debacle started when Google copied certain elements—names ...

The Vector API gives Java developers everything they need to tap into CPU-level performance gains for numerically intensive operations.

The Supreme Court has sided with Google in the long-running Java API copyright case known as Oracle v. Google, finding that Google is legally entitled to use elements of Java APIs in its Android code.