Sun to Build JVM for Apple iPhone
Monday, March 10th, 2008Sun 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.