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zembly is the world’s first collaborative environment specifically designed for creating social applications.

Through the use of just a browser, zembly allows Facebook apps, OpenSocial apps, Meebo apps, iPhone applications, widgets, Google gadgets and other social Web applications to be collaboratively built and published.

“There is no develop-deploy cycle to speak of, because the code is live, in the same way that wiki content is live and can be immediately edited by merely clicking an ‘edit’ link. If there is a bug in your application, simply click the button and the updated code is immediately live,” writes Sun’s Prakash Narayan, who is a member of the team working on this project.

zembly was launched June 6 for private beta, which means an invitation is required to join. Visit Narayan’s blog to request an invitation.

Sun plans on building a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) for Apple iPhone and the iTouch with intentions of releasing the JVM after June, enabling Java applications to run on Apple’s popular mobile devices.

Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing at Sun, said the JVM will be made available for free “as quickly as possible” after Apple releases the final version of the iPhone 2.0 software and SDK in June.

Sun decided it could enable Java to run on the iPhone after Apple released an SDK for the iPhone on March 6th. Klein said the JVM is to be based on the Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME), and added that he believes developers will be able to make an application for the iPhone with the JVM without needing to go to the iPhone SDK.