Instead, Oracle is making a copyright claim on the APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) used to communicate with the Java programming language.

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"Java is a great programming language, but there is not a big intersection between handhelds and Java, " said Jeff Hawkins, founder of HandSpring.

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The Java programming language was developed in the good old days by Sun Microsystems.

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