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Dancing around the truth: what Springboard is | 342 comments | Create New Account
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Dancing around the truth: what Springboard is
Authored by: stegu on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 04:08 AM EDT
This is what I dislike so much about the US legal system:
lawyers try to conceal the truth by carefully crafted use
of words that are ever so slightly wrong and confusing,
and they get away with it. This needs to be caught and
called out very clearly in court by Google, because it
indicates to everyone, including the jury, that Oracle
has no case and is forced to dance around the truth to
argue their position.

If Google had caught this seemingly deliberate
confusion of "Sun APIs" with "Java APIs" and
asked for clarification, then Ellison's testimony
in this matter would have been shredded.

Another detail is that the "Springboard" implementation
he is referring to seems to be a web servlet API. It
is now abandoned, or at least heading for obscurity.
The two class paths roots I have found that mention Springboard in the context
of Java are
org.springframework and com.wiley.springboard,
and neither lead to any useful information when
translated to web addresses:

http://www.springframework.org redirects to springsource.org,
nothing about Springboard there any more.
http://springboard.wiley.com/ does not allow external access.

In servlet programming, everything related to I/O is
written to generate web pages from HTTP requests,
so many of the "standard" APIs become irrelevant.
The java.lang API is still required, though.

Comparing a servlet-only Java implementation to a Java
environment aimed at writing general applications is
dishonest, because it misses the point. Yes, you can
implement a very restricted form of Java without most
of the APIs in question, but you couldn't write
applications with that version. It's apples and oranges.

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