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The Register interviewed Eric Klein and asked him if Java lovers will get the goodie VM on the Apple platform. The response follows:

“We’re very excited,” Eric Klein, Sun’s vice president of Java marketing, told the The Reg. “We’ve spent the last 24 hours furiously looking through what information was made publicly available, and we feel comfortable enough at this point on the information we have to commit the engineering resources to bring the JVM over to the iPhone and the iTouch as fast as our schedules and Apple’s release schedule will allow. [...] We of course chose to set the price of the JVM at… free! Apple explicitly said developers can chose to put free applications through the App Store and – heck – we’re doing it! [...] We have a lot of learning to do, as do all the developers who just got access to the SDK. We just thought it was really important that our development community has the opportunity to write a Java app and have it run on the iPhone”

So bottom line:

- most likely it will be a JVM (unless they decide to restrict it to a KVM)
- FREE
- no info on JNLP
- no info on Safari Java plug-in
- no details on the level of integration with the underlying OS

It looks like we’ll just have to wait and see. But, to be honest with you, i think the iPhone JVM is going to be handy only for the “lazy” developers who won’t feel like learning how to use the Apple SDK.

Now will it be a KVM or a JVM… I guess we’ll find out in June or so

Cheers…

By Nick | 8. Mar 2008 | Apple, Java, Software, The Wonderful Internet | 2 Comments »