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 ...

Java’s collections like arrays and lists are foundational building blocks. Functional programming techniques are at times the ideal way to work with these collections.

Many developers get intimidated when they look at all the new APIs that accept lambda expressions as arguments, and wonder how they’ll ever figure out which Java function to use and what the proper ...

He revisited one 2010 exchange that Oracle has often referenced as a smoking gun, in which Google engineer Tim Lindholm told Android team leader Andy Rubin that the alternatives to Java “all ...

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 ...

Most of Java encompasses implementations for desktop, servers, or enterprise systems. Even if Android fragmented JavaME, it would have no effect on desktop- or server-based implementations of Java.

High-profile case draws to a close. Google and Oracle have given their closing arguments in a multi billion-dollar copyright infringement lawsuit over the use of 37 Java application programming ...