Comments on: Sun to Bring J2ME Java to Apple iPhone

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:33:51 +0000

I don’t have any hard updates (or there would have been a news article), but it appears that Oracle’s acquisition of Sun was the final nail in the iPhone J2ME port’s coffin.

The other problem was Sun’s inability to appease Apple’s requirement of full code auditing. While Apple does now permit emulators, the payload (the midlet/applet) must be included with the app, so Apple can review it for malicious code.

In other words, J2ME for iPhone would have consisted of each app vendor porting their code to the J2ME runtime, and then packaging that up into a separate app, and submitting the app (emulator and midlet together) to Apple for approval. Finally, the emulator would have to prevent non-app code from executing (say, code downloaded from the web).

The result is a crippled environment only interesting to folks like Opera. Oh, and Apple would reject Opera for mimicking Safari, so there wasn’t anyone that wouldn’t be better off porting to native iPhone OS code.

By: Arnnei

Arnnei — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:21:03 +0000

From what I hear – it ain’t coming.
The deal is off.

By: renish ladani

renish ladani — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:10:23 +0000

yes j2me seems more standard then other mobile software developemnt plateforms. Most of the mobile OS supports its e.g. BlackBerry RIM OS. so if iphone takes initiatives , its great thing

By: Durgadas Shetty

Durgadas Shetty — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:49:12 +0000

Hey can anyone please let me know whether J2ME support for iphone is already implemented , or if a brief idea on when it will be released will also be perfectly fine

By: Bommaraju Chaitanya

Bommaraju Chaitanya — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:15:11 +0000

It’s great to hear.
Please inform me when this future will come with J2ME.
Waiting for your positive response.