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 ...

Jace—a free, open source toolkit—lets you easily write JNI (Java Native Interface) code. This article analyzes in detail the JNI API's problems and how Jace solves them.

While PMD works on source code, the FindBugs tool looks for code smells in compiled Java code. This Java static code analysis tool sifts through bytecode and finds sources of potential errors and ...