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iPhone and Java and SUN – Perfect together!

March 9, 2008 Barbara No comments

Java and Sun Two days ago it was announced by Sun that Java is coming to the iPhone.

Now, I don’t know about you, but to me this is big news! After all, Java powers tons of application on the Internet…and to move that platform to something as small and powerful as the iPhone will open the doors to an immense amount of creativity.

As reported by InfoWorld:

The JVM is to be based on the Java Micro Edition (ME) version of Java, said Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing at Sun, on Friday afternoon. Apple had not shown interest in enabling Java to run on the iPhone, but Sun plans to step in and do the job itself after having pondered Thursday’s release of an SDK for the iPhone by Apple.

“Now, the iPhone is open” as a target platform, Klein said. The free JVM would be made available via Apple’s AppStore marketplace for third-party applications.

“We’re going to make sure that the JVM offers the Java applications as much access to the native functionality of the iPhone as possible,” he said.

Besides Java games, developers could bring over enterprise applications such as ERP or CRM to the iPhone, said Klein. Apple’s iTouch, which features iPhone capabilities minus telephony, also will be supported by the JVM.

“Once our JVM is on the phone, we anticipate that a large number of Java applications would run on the phone,” Klein said….MORE….

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