Sun prepping Java for iPhone: your craplet investment is safe

by Paul Miller posted Mar 8th 2008 at 6:54PM

We're sure there have been some really great Java Micro Edition apps developed over the years, we just haven't been fortunate enough to ~~find any that aren't a Bejeweled variant~~ run into many of them. But that could very well change with the news that Sun is using that fancy new SDK to develop a Java Virtual Machine for the iPhone, which it expects to have ready "some time after June," and which will allow iPhone users access to the vast libraries of existing JME apps. We suppose the real conundrum now is which Java ME app we'll grab first: Harry Potter, or MapQuest Mobile. These choices, they overwhelm us.

[Via Mac Rumors]

Filed under: Software, Java, Apple, iPhone OS

Tags: iphone, java, java micro edition, JavaMicroEdition, jme, jvm, sdk, sun

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Jason @ Mar 8th 2008 7:28PM

Orcs and Elves... Doom RPG? It should be useful to have Java support.

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shadow @ Mar 8th 2008 8:44PM

wow Paul, apparently you hate java... so much for unbiased, factual reporting.

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Fernando @ Mar 8th 2008 10:41PM

Hahaha oh wow, if apple sez java is bad, so say engadget... Pathetic.

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ishism @ Mar 9th 2008 3:40AM

Other than games, what java apps are useful and cool? This sounds useful for creating and using apps on the ifone.

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Goodman @ Mar 9th 2008 9:02AM

I'd be happy to run the free java Opera Mini on the phone. I'm not a fan of the iPhone's two handed browsing, I'd rather have a browser that reformats everything into a single column so I just have to scroll down.

On the other hand, I just learned that only one iPhone application can run at a time, and third-party applications never run in the background. If users switch to another application, answer the phone, or check their email, the application they were using quits. ( http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/iphone-sdk-some-of-the-details-arent-great/ ) So I'm a lot less jazzed now about third party apps on the iPhone.