Why the grain of salt? For a while now Novell has been running a closed beta test program for .NET development on the iPhone: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Aug-03.html
Anyway, the primary reason why you don't see Java on the iPhone is that you are simply not allowed by Apple to run a JIT. C# was designed to always be compiled, Java was not. Mono already took advantage of this in the past in order to run on a multitude of devices (Wii etc.) so the compiler can emit statically optimized code just like a C compiler would do. I believe there are some attempts at bringing Java there, but the big difference is that Mono does not require a jailbreak whereas Java does which also means developers can publish C# applications in the app store. This probably also means that the first browser RIA plugin to be supported by iPhone will be Silverlight. /Casper On 14 Sep., 12:25, JavaSnake <zeevb.pub...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know that such news from InfoWorld should be taken with a gain off > salt... but here goes: > InfoWorld reports that "Novell on Monday will offer a kit for > developers to build Apple iPhone and iPod Touch business applications > using Microsoft's .Net Framework instead of the Apple-designated C or > Objective-C languages." > -http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/iphone-gets-net-app-develo... > > What is the status of developing with Java for the IPhone? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
