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Sun Still in Discussions with Apple for Java on iPhone

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Despite early claims that Sun was planning on introducing Java to the iPhone with the SDK, it appears Sun is still in discussions with Apple regarding this plan.

But Sun still wants to put a JVM on iPhone through the iPhone SDK. "[Apple is] well aware of what we're doing, and we're in discussions," Klein said.

In the meanwhile, Sun is working with a company called Innaworks who is offering an system that will port Java games into standalone iPhone SDK-based applications. This way, individual Java apps can be compiled into true iPhone applications, which will allow them to be considered individually for Apple's iTunes App Store.

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