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, ...

Java has long been a powerhouse programming language thanks to its portability, robustness and extensive ecosystem. However, one major challenge for Java developers is interoperation with native code.

A software tool used in software programming that abstracts all the programming steps into a user interface for the developer. An application programming interface (API) is a software tool used in ...

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 ...