Developers use application programming interfaces to hide complexity, organize code, design reusable components, and connect different systems, applications, or services.

Yet if Oracle has a copyright in the Java API, it would have the power to prevent programmers from taking their skills to new platforms without Oracle's permission.

JSR-353, the Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P), has reached final approval ballot this month. JSON-P (similar to JAXP) consists of a Streaming API (similar to StAX) and an Object Model API ...

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JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) is the Java API that manages connecting to a database, issuing queries and commands, and handling result sets obtained from the database.

The new Java EE security API promises to deliver on features such as app portability across Java EE servers and when using modern programming concepts.

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)is an application program interface (API) specification for connecting programs written in Java to the data in popular databases.