Sun will port Java to iPhone

Posted by David on March 8th, 2008 at 06:35pm Comments

Just as expected earlier, after Apples announcement of the iPhone SDK, SUN also unveiled their plans to release iPhone compatible version of Java VM, making it possible to run Java apps.

Java VM will be based on Java Micro Edition, which is a version of java designed for mobile phones, PDA’s and other portables. Even though Apple didn’t express any interest in enabling Java, but SUN said they will make it so themselves.

Java would be useful not only for small apps, or games, but also for enterprise applications.

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

Chris Silva, research analyst said that bringing JVM to iPhone could increase devices security.

After SDK’s release SUN experts analyzed it and decided that there is nothing that would prevent Java working on the iPhone. According to Klein, Sun plans to release Java SE and JavaFX technologies.

“It’s a new platform for us. We might be able to bring additional technologies onto the iPhone and the iTouch,” Klein said.

Thanks: InfoWorld

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