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Ex-Sun Employees Are Taking Java To iOS

Posted by timothy on from the drinking-the-beans dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ex-Sun employees did what Sun/Oracle failed to do since the iPhone launched. They brought Java to iOS and other mobile devices. They are getting major coverage from Forbes, DDJ, hacker news and others. They are taking a unique approach of combining a Swing-like API with a open source and SaaS based solution."

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  1. finally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The terrible performance of android, finally on ios.

  2. Re:Not entirely useful by Karlt1 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "This gives you instant portability to other platforms without having to wonder about ended-ness, hardware, file structure and myriad other things. Imagine writing a game on Linux and automaticaly, it would run on Windows, Mac and any other Java supported platform."

    And your application looks like crap and non-native for every platform.

    And you still have to test on every platform because of different screen sizes, performance, etc.

    How many high performant apps have you seen written in Java or even using Dalvik? For the most part if you want performance especially on mobile, you have to go native

    "but that's beside the point. Java portability is a keen aspect of the language which sometimes gets overlooked"

    You mean write once test everywhere?

  3. Re:We already have the original by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Java a clone of OPENSTEP? Really? Please elaborate.