On Thursday, March 15, 2012 10:29:27 AM UTC-5, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > No. Even if there were a JRE on iOS, it's pretty unlikely that Apple would > approve applications written in Java in the app store since they have been > a very clearly hostile opponent of Java since day one (well, day two if you > exclude the dance that Steve Jobs once did at JavaOne to promise to make > MacOS the best Java environment available. Ironically, it actually > happened, even though he killed the initiative). >
We are not hearing each other on this. Apple routinely approves applications written in ActionScript with Adobe tools and C# with MonoTouch, and it's invisible to the end user who just sees a native iPhone application. Apple won't go out of their way to support Java, but they also won't go out of their way to block Java/JVM/Scala development in the same way they don't block ActionScript or C# development tool chains. The difference is that Adobe and MonoTouch uses embedded VMs and deliver native iOS binaries without any special help from Apple. Java doesn't attempt this at all. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/dMaYHwWlXN4J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
