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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 24 2012 @ 01:29 PM EDT |
The SSO is an index containing information about more than one API, hence the
plural, APIs, is correct.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 24 2012 @ 01:35 PM EDT |
The SSO is an index containing information about more than one API, hence the
plural, APIs, is correct.
As in:
This API does 'this' and
That API does 'that'. They're different APIs.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 24 2012 @ 02:40 PM EDT |
Nope. The sequence for most API bundles is mostly arbitrary. There is a bit of
dependencies causing a weak ordering, but it is mostly a matter of taste how to
arrange them. If you want to be on the safe side, do a topological sort and
arrange everything not fixed by that in alohabetical order.
But frankly, that's ridiculous.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, July 24 2012 @ 04:52 PM EDT |
Here's what Oracle said in its objections:
This case presented
landmark legal issues of first impression pertaining to the copyrightability of
application programming interfaces ("APIs"). In its order dismissing Oracle's
copyright claim regarding the structure, sequence, and organization ("SSO") of
the 37 Java API packages, the Court grappled with complex issues of copyright
law, observing that "[n]o law is directly on point." Note the
APIs form. And the SSO is not just the APIs. It's how they are arranged and
interact, as Oracle wrote to the
judge:
The Java class libraries that Sun developed are important
components of the Java platform. The class libraries help application developers
program more efficiently by supplying pre-written code for various applications,
thereby obviating the need to write such code from scratch. The APIs are the
blueprints to the class libraries, providing not just the names and hierarchical
structure of thousands of elements (classes and “interfaces” and associated
methods and data “fields”), but also the interdependencies among the various
elements and the extent to which they are exposed to one another. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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