The iPhone opens up for business
Sun will make Java work for iPhone(Posted in NewsBlog by Erica Ogg) After the release of the software development kit for Apple's iPhone, Sun Microsystems says it's going to enable Java applications to run on the device, InfoWorld is reporting. Sun will build a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), based on the Java Micro Edition version of the programming language after June of this year. It will be available in the iPhone AppStore. Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing at Sun, told InfoWorld Friday that although Apple passed on enabling Java on the iPhone, Sun decided to do so anyway after Thursday's SDK unveiling. After combing through the documents for the SDK and seeing nothing that barred it from doing so, Sun decided to go for it. "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," Klein said. Java on the iPhone will mean that versions of software, like customer relationship management and other enterprise applications, could be available on the device. |
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jashsayani says...
SDK was a must. If you introduce a new platform, there has to be an SDK release to support 3rd party business as well as multimedia applications. It was very stupid of Apple to not release the SDK untill great hacks were used by almost all iPhone users to support 3rd party apps. But due to the official release of the SDK, business and productivity tools for the iPhone will also be released in a short period of time like Skype.
I would also like to add that the SDK must run all Operating Systems and not just Mac. But I guess Apple will release the Windows compatable SDK only after a hack is released to run the Mac SDK on Windows. Thats how Apple is.
Mar 10, 2008 20:16
SDK was a must. If you introduce a new platform, there has to be an SDK release to support 3rd party business as well as multimedia applications. It was very stupid of Apple to not release the SDK untill great hacks were used by almost all iPhone users to support 3rd party apps. But due to the official release of the SDK, business and productivity tools for the iPhone will also be released in a short period of time like Skype.
I would also like to add that the SDK must run all Operating Systems and not just Mac. But I guess Apple will release the Windows compatable SDK only after a hack is released to run the Mac SDK on Windows. Thats how Apple is.
Mar 10, 2008 20:16
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