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, declaration ...

As noted by ZDNet, a major security vulnerability in Java 7 has been discovered, with the vulnerability currently being exploited in the wild by malicious parties. In response to threat, the U.S.

Java is just a straw man. Nicely bounded and relatively easily understood by judges. They are really seeking precedent to protect their main line database products from drop in competition.