Google Confirms Next Android Version Won’t Implement Oracle’s Proprietary Java APIs

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK). The news first came by a “mysterious Android codebase commit” from last month submitted to Hacker News. Google confirmed to VentureBeat that Android N will rely solely on OpenJDK, rather Android’s own implementation of the Java APIs.

As an open-source platform, Android is built upon the collaboration of the open-source community,” a Google spokesperson told VentureBeat. “In our upcoming release of Android, we plan to move Android’s Java language libraries to an OpenJDK-based approach, creating a common code base for developers to build apps and services. Google has long worked with and contributed to the OpenJDK community, and we look forward to making even more contributions to the OpenJDK project in the future.”

Android provides certain Java API libraries to support the development of apps in the Java programming language, broken into two parts: the APIs to the libraries, and the implementing code developed by Google that make said libraries work. Oracle, which develops Java, has two implementations of these libraries: the proprietary JDK version and the open source OpenJDK version. Google’s decision to “consolidate” its efforts with OpenJDK, which Android already uses in some areas, means it will be sharing its implementing code.
The code commit in question, which shows 8902 files were changed, clearly notes OpenJDK code was added to Android:

Initial import of OpenJdk files.
Create new libcore/ojluni directory with src/main/java and src/main/native subdirectiories.
Build ojluni into core-oj jar.
Use openjdk classes from java.awt.font package.
Copy all files from jdk/src/share/classes and jdk/src/solaris/classes directories in openjdk into libcore/ojluni/src/main/java.
Copy following native files from openjdk to libcore/ojluni/src/main/native: [long list of files]

Google is hoping that Android developers will appreciate the change because it simplifies the code on which they build apps — a common codebase for these Java API libraries, as opposed to multiple codebases. That may be true, but if that was the only reason Google made the complete switch to OpenJDK, the company would have done so years ago.
When we asked Google why now, the company pointed to to the release of Java 8 last year and the introduction of new language features such as lambdas. As such, Google wants to put more resources into OpenJDK where the team can have a bigger impact on new features and improvements. That’s the developer story Google is pitching in any case, but there’s a massive legal narrative here that can’t be forgotten.

Oracle

Hacker News users are rightly wondering whether the code commit means the legal dispute between Oracle and Google has been settled out of court, or whether Google has decided to protect itself with regards to future Android versions in the event it loses. It’s a good question, but because the Oracle lawsuit is ongoing, Google declined to comment whether this code commit is related.
After acquiring Sun in January 2010, Oracle sued Google for copyright and patent infringement in August 2010, arguing that Android cannot use Java’s APIs without permission. Google countered by declaring that APIs can’t be copyrighted as they are essential to software development, collaboration, and innovation.
In May 2012, a jury found that Google did not infringe on Oracle’s patents, saying that Java’s APIs can’t be copyrighted. In May 2014, the Federal Circuit partially reversed the district court decision, ruling in Oracle’s favor: Java’s APIs can be copyrighted. In June 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case and sent it back to a lower court so Google could argue that it made fair use of Oracle’s copyrighted APIs.
Is it just a coincidence that after all this back and forth, Google has decided to completely embrace OpenJDK? Unlikely, but the end result is what matters: Future versions of Android will be based on OpenJDK, not Oracle’s proprietary JDK version.
Either way, the case isn’t over (Google can’t exactly change existing Android versions), and the final decision will still be watched very closely as it could have a huge impact on software development as a whole. If Oracle wins, tech giants could hold a lot of power over developers creating new software based on existing apps and services. If Google wins, fair use laws could essentially protect the use of APIs.

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Oracle 1Z0-051 Exam Demo Questions

QUESTION: 3

Which three statements are true regarding sub queries? (Choose three.)

A. Multiple columns or expressions can be compared between the main query and sub query
B. Main query and sub query can get data from different tables
C. Sub queries can contain GROUP BY and ORDER BY clauses
D. Main query and sub query must get data from the same tables
E. Sub queries can contain ORDER BY but not the GROUP BY clause
F. Only one column or expression can be compared between the main query and subqeury

Correct Answer: A,B,C

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Comptia CAS-002 Exam Demo Questions

Question 2:

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of an Internet service provider (ISP) has decided to limit the company’s contribution to worldwide Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Which of the following should the ISP implement? (Select TWO).

A. Block traffic from the ISP’s networks destined for blacklisted IPs.
B. Prevent the ISP’s customers from querying DNS servers other than those hosted by the ISP.
C. Scan the ISP’s customer networks using an up-to-date vulnerability scanner.
D. Notify customers when services they run are involved in an attack.
E. Block traffic with an IP source not allocated to customers from exiting the ISP's network.

Answer: D,E

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Cisco 200-120 Exam Demo Questions

Question 2:

Refer to the exhibit.

Which three statements correctly describe Network Device A? (Choose three. )

A. With a network wide mask of 255.255.255.128, each interface does not require an IP address.
B. With a network wide mask of 255.255.255.128, each interface does require an IP address on a unique IP subnet.
C. With a network wide mask of 255.255.255.0, must be a Layer 2 device for the PCs to communicate with each other.
D. With a network wide mask of 255.255.255.0, must be a Layer 3 device for the PCs to communicate with each other.
E. With a network wide mask of 255.255.254. 0, each interface does not require an IP address.

Answer: B,D,E

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Question 3:

A network engineer is setting up a network for a company. There is a BYOD policy for the
employees so that they can connect their laptops and mobile devices.
Which of the following technologies should be employed to separate the administrative network
from the network in which all of the employees’ devices are connected?

A. VPN
B. VLAN
C. WPA2
D. MAC filtering

Answer: B

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Microsoft Band 2 might Look a whole lot Better than the First Model

We are waiting to see Microsoft Band 2 on the big event of the Company on October 06, but we're getting back out through a leak. Insider site in Spanish Microsoft has obtained the images, which claims figlio Official Rende new laptop.

If legitimate, the pictures show a device much more attractive than the Original model. The Verge can confirm that the scanner will have a curved surface as the device shown in Rende, although we can not confirm the autenticità of these images. The leak shows a new metallic finish, combined with the new curved screen, away from the strictly utilitarian looks of the Original band.

We'll find out on October 6th if this is indeed what Microsoft's new fitness tracker looks like stay tuned for more.

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Microsoft 70-410 Exam Demo Questions

QUESTION 2:

You work as an administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network consists of a single domain
named ABC.com. All servers in the ABC.com domain, including domain controllers, have Windows
Server 2012 R2 installed.

You have been instructed to modify the name of the local Administrator account on all ABC.com
workstations. You want to achieve this using as little administrative effort as possible.

Which of the following actions should you take?

A. You should consider configuring the Security Options settings via the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC).
B. You should consider configuring the Security Options settings via Server Manager.
C. You should consider configuring the replication settings.
D. You should consider navigating to Local Users and Groups via Computer Management on each
workstation.

Answer: A

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Amazon AWS-SysOps Exam Demo Questions

Question 2:

A user has created a VPC with public and private subnets using the VPC wizard. Which of the
below mentioned statements is not true in this scenario?

A. The VPC will create a routing instance and attach it with a public subnet
B. The VPC will create two subnets
C. The VPC will create one internet gateway and attach it to VPC
D. The VPC will launch one NAT instance with an elastic IP

Answer: A

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Comptia SY0-401 Exam Demo Questions

Question 2:

After copying a sensitive document from his desktop to a flash drive, Joe, a user, realizes that the document is no longer encrypted. Which of the following can a security technician implement to ensure that documents stored on Joe’s desktop remain encrypted when moved to external media or other network based storage?

A. Whole disk encryption
B. Removable disk encryption
C. Database record level encryption
D. File level encryption

Answer: D

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Exclusive: Meet Cisco's New Local Smart City Leader

 Kent Nuss, the new leader of Cisco man in Kansas City, it will be a little '' like its predecessor.

Monday, the Kansas City Business Journal sat down with Nuss, who now runs the local presence of Cisco Systems Inc. in its project in Kansas City. Nuss said he worked with Isaiah Blackburn, the project manager, before, in the last two years, since the public-private partnership between the city and the $ 15000000 now based in San Francisco, the network technology (Nasdaq : CSCO) was coming. Last week, Cisco announced Blackburn has left to become director of strategy for Xaqt release a local company.

Nuss, a responsible transformation of selection position Cisco Account Overland Park, said he was in the company for 10 years working in sales. From south central Kansas and went to school at Kansas State University in Manhattan. He said he was in Kansas City for nearly 25 years.

Nuss said he was involved with the planning and organization of the "smart city" in Kansas City for about two years, and its current goal is always wide initiative to inflate the technical backbone of the city center. Incubator startups He's talking to the Smart City Advisory Council, a body appointed by Mayor Sly James to develop goals and best practices for the association, which also includes Sprint Corp. headquarters in Overland Park and Kansas City-based think Great Partners LLC.

Cisco is committed to getting the first operational phase in the spring, and now design network infrastructure together with Sprint. Nuss said that the main objective is to get the foundation laid by Sprint. The telecommunications company is building a Wi-Fi 2.2 miles along the route of the tram line from Kansas City, which will serve as the center of much of the interconnect technology.

Nuss has reiterated that the draft Kansas City, one of about 90 smart city projects worldwide, is very important for the efforts of the Internet things Cisco. "We have the power of the company behind it," Nuss said.As moved to Blackburn Xaqt, Nuss said the move does not mean that has cut its ties with Cisco. "It 's definitely a resource that is in my back pocket," said Nuss. "He is close to us."

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Oracle 1Z0-051 Exam Demo Questions

Question 2:

You need to design a student registration database that contains several tables storing academic information.The STUDENTS table stores information about a student. The STUDENT_GRADES table stores information about the student's grades. Both of the tables have a column named STUDENT_ID. The STUDENT_ID column in the STUDENTS table is a primary key.
You need to create a foreign key on the STUDENT_ID column of the STUDENT_GRADES table that
points to the STUDENT_ID column of the STUDENTS table. Which statement creates the foreign key?

A. CREATE TABLE student_grades (student_id NUMBER(12),semester_end DATE, gpa NUMBER(4,3),
CONSTRAINT student_id_fk REFERENCES (student_id) FOREIGN KEY students(student_id));
B. CREATE TABLE student_grades(student_id NUMBER(12),semester_end DATE, gpa NUMBER(4,3),
student_id_fk FOREIGN KEY (student_id) REFERENCES students(student_id));
C. CREATE TABLE student_grades(student_id NUMBER(12),semester_end DATE, gpa NUMBER(4,3),
CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (student_id) REFERENCES students(student_id));
D. CREATE TABLE student_grades(student_id NUMBER(12),semester_end DATE, gpa NUMBER(4,3),
CONSTRAINT student_id_fk FOREIGN KEY (student_id) REFERENCES students(student_id));

Answer: D

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Comptia CAS-002 Exam Demo Questions

 Question 1:

Which of the following would be used in forensic analysis of a compromised Linux system? (Select THREE).

A. Check log files for logins from unauthorized IPs.
B. Check /proc/kmem for fragmented memory segments.
C. Check for unencrypted passwords in /etc/shadow.
D. Check timestamps for files modified around time of compromise.
E. Use lsof to determine files with future timestamps.
F. Use gpg to encrypt compromised data files.
G. Verify the MD5 checksum of system binaries.
H. Use vmstat to look for excessive disk I/O.

Answer: A,D,G

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Cisco 300-115 Exam Demo Questions

QUESTION 2:

A network engineer wants to add a new switch to an existing switch stack. Which configuration must be added to the new switch before it can be added to the switch stack?

A. No configuration must be added.
B. stack ID
C. IP address
D. VLAN information
E. VTP information

Answer: A

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Cisco 300-115 Exam Demo Questions

Question 1:

What is the maximum number of switches that can be stacked using Cisco StackWise?

A. 4
B. 5
C. 8
D. 9
E. 10
F. 13

Answer: D

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Microsoft 70-411 Exam Demo Questions

QUESTION 1:

You are hired by ABC.com to administrate a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 domain named
ABC.com. ABC.com utilizes an organizational unit (OU) named KingFileServ for housing all File
Server computer accounts in the domain.You need to be able to track access files located in the SYSVOL and Confidential shares on the File servers.

Which of the actions should you consider?

A. You should consider configuring the Account Logon and Object Access auditing category.
B. You should consider configuring the Object Access auditing category.
C. You should consider configuring the Global Object Access Auditing and DS Access auditing
category.
D. You should consider configuring the Directory Service Access and Audit system events auditing category.

Answer: B

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Microsoft Chair John Thompson lauds Satya Nadella’s Open Approach

When Microsoft announced that Nokia has acquired for $ 7.2 billion in September 2013, the movement confused many industry observers. A month earlier, Steve Ballmer revealed his resignation as CEO. The man charged with finding a replacement to lead the Windows machine was John Thompson, 65, a member of the board of Microsoft that has followed the company's co-founder Bill Gates as president last year.

In July, Satya Nadella, Mr. Thompson selection for the post, decided Nokia has been an albatross and wrote almost all Nokia buy the 7,800 jobs cut in the Finnish group. The measure was a clear rejection of Microsoft's ambition to become a leader in the smartphone sector. But he asked if Nokia believes that the agreement of a costly mistake, Mr. Thompson says he has "no regrets" about the transaction.

"I will always raise my hand and say that I voted for him," says Mr. Thompson. "No one wants to pay back $ 7.8 billion, but no one wants to limit the choices" We were in the midst of a CEO search and if we had said, 'Oh, we will not continue with the agreement Nokia because Steve has announced that it will retired, and we expect the new CEO to get their sea legs' we could find ourselves in the position where Nokia was not available to us."

Thompson said he supported the change in direction of Mr. Nadella, as part of a broader effort to "reshape Microsoft". Over the past 18 months, the company has cut more than 25,000 jobs, it gave much of their advertising operations of AOL and decided to give the latest version of its Windows operating system for consumers for free. "I give great credit Satya say," Wait a minute, we can not keep doing this, '"says Mr. Thompson, adding that his role is to be a" coach or mentor Satya ", leaving the big strategic calls CEO.

But people who know Mr. Thompson will be credited rather than being a sounding board. They say he worked between racks to lead a major step in your boardroom, as well as the office of the Director General, when the shareholders have lost patience in Mr. Ballmer. A diplomat and statesman of the software world, their role in the remake the board including Ballmer to give more space to his successor, and the decision to resign as President of Gates has been the key to give Mr. Nadella space to rebuild society .

Microsoft hopes to increase revenues from the sale of software licenses for their cloud computing products, such as Office 365 suite of business productivity and online storage Azure. "The whole world is moving to the cloud. If we make a big bet on the cloud, to bet?" Says.But he admits that for the strategy to succeed, Microsoft needs to create more culture "free", ready to build applications and services that run on more platforms and devices software, regardless of who makes them.Thompson says Mr. Nadella has "spent more time in Silicon Valley in the 18 months that Steve spent five years." The company has made its products available in office furniture systems from Apple iOS and Google Android, while also releasing tools for software developers to create applications to run your platform, such as Windows 10.

The Microsoft strategy to create smoother a more collaborative? "Time will tell," he says. "It 's too late? I do not know. If so, then we will know in two or three years."New playbook Mr. Nadella can borrow some advice from Thompson old. After 28 years as an executive at IBM, he spent a decade as CEO of Symantec, the software company for computer security. Thompson was credited with streamlining the company, the abandonment or sale of these divisions, such as software development tools for the construction industry, to focus entirely on computer security.

By the time he resigned in 2008, annual sales of Symantec had increased $ 600 million to $ 6 billion. However, its mandate also included errors, such as the acquisition of Veritas Software $ 10 billion company data storage Symantec. Last month, the private equity group Carlyle has a buy Veritas for $ 8bn.In 2010, Mr. Thompson became CEO of virtual instruments, a startup based in cloud of San Jose, which focuses networks infrastructure management performance storage large companies.

Private enterprise has generated $ 350m- $ 400 revenues from its founding in 2008, but still not profitable. Thompson said Virtual Instruments has 350 customers, including "about 50 of the Fortune Global 100 and 200 500" as Dell and Microsoft.As one of the most important African-Americans in the technology sector, Mr. Thompson agrees that it is a rarity . But he defended the record of technology companies, citing "the group of candidates of engineering talent is rich in diversity," while schools and colleges that suggest should do more to add to this pool.

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Oracle 1Z0-051 Exam Demo Questions

Question 1:

Evaluate the SQL statement:
TRUNCATE TABLE DEPT;
Which three are true about the SQL statement? (Choose three.)

A. It releases the storage space used by the table.
B. It does not release the storage space used by the table.
C. You can roll back the deletion of rows after the statement executes.
D. You can NOT roll back the deletion of rows after the statement executes.
E. An attempt to use DESCRIBE on the DEPT table after the TRUNCATE statement executes will display an error.
F. You must be the owner of the table or have DELETE ANY TABLE system privileges to truncate the DEPT table 

Answer: A,D,F

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Amazon AWS-SysOps Exam Demo Questions

Question 1:

A user wants to disable connection draining on an existing ELB. Which of the below mentioned statements helps the user disable connection draining on the ELB?

A. The user can only disable connection draining from CLI
B. It is not possible to disable the connection draining feature once enabled
C. The user can disable the connection draining feature from EC2 -> ELB console or from CLI
D. The user needs to stop all instances before disabling connection draining

Answer: C

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Question 1:

Which of the following ports is used for SSH, by default?

A. 23
B. 32
C. 12
D. 22

Answer: D

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Cisco 200-120 Exam Demo Questions

Question 1:

Refer to the exhibit:

What will Router1 do when it receives the data frame shown? (Choose three.)

A. Router1 will strip off the source MAC address and replace it with the MAC address 0000.0c36. 6965.
B. Router1 will strip off the source IP address and replace it with the IP address 192.168.40.1.
C. Router1 will strip off the destination MAC address and replace it with the MAC address
0000.0c07.4320.
D. Router1 will strip off the destination IP address and replace it with the IP address of
192.168.40.1.
E. Router1 will forward the data packet out interface FastEthernet0/1.
F. Router1 will forward the data packet out interface FastEthernet0/2.

Answer: A, C, F

Explanation:

Remember, the source and destination MAC changes as each router hop along with the TTL being decremented but the source and destination IP address remain the same from source to destination.

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Microsoft 70-410 Exam Demo Questions

QUESTION 1:

You work as an administrator at ABC.com. The ABC.com network consists of a single domain
named ABC.com. All servers in the ABC.com domain, including domain controllers, have Windows Server 2012 R2 installed.
You have been instructed to modify the name of the local Administrator account on all ABC.comworkstations. You want to achieve this using as little administrative effort as possible.Which of the following actions should you take?

A. You should consider configuring the Security Options settings via the Group Policy
Management Console (GPMC).
B. You should consider configuring the Security Options settings via Server Manager.
C. You should consider configuring the replication settings.
D. You should consider navigating to Local Users and Groups via Computer Management on each
workstation.

Answer: A

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