An Open-Source Java Port To iPhone?

An anonymous reader writes "With the first anniversary of open-source Java coming up November 13, a Sun official believes the project could bear a fruit much sought-after in the Java community: a Java port to the Apple iPhone. Apple has not released a version of Java capable of running on the popular device. But Sun's Terrence Barr, technical evangelist for the Java mobile and embedded community, believes Apple's plans to release an SDK for iPhone in early 2008 may result in the open-source phoneME version of Java ME winding up on iPhone."

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Re:Why?

[Blakey Rat]

If "NetBeans" is supposed to be an example of a great app in Java, they're doing a terrible job. I've never heard of "NetBeans" nor do I even know what it's for. (Some kind of web-based coffee recipe storage database?)

The Java apps I know are Azureus, Lotus Notes, OpenOffice.org, Limewire, all of which are slow and bloated and most of which have weird alien UIs that don't match the host OS at all.