Just because Microsoft ended up paying Sun Microsystems $20 million to settle their 4-year-old suit over Java doesn't mean the software giant was the real loser in the spat. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo ...

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 main() ...

The judge's decision, coming little more than a week after a jury unanimously concluded that Google's use of Java in Android did not infringe Oracle's Java patents, means that Oracle -- for the moment ...

The accusations have been flying for five years now in Oracle’s bitter legal battle with Google, and on Thursday the companies reportedly appeared in a San Francisco District Court to hear Oracle ...