Sun Microsystems unveiled its plans to build a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for the iPhone. JVM will be based on Apple iPhone SDK that was released recently. This is a big boost for Apple in its fight to launch the iPhone as an easy business option in competition with other smart phones and PDAs.

At InfoWorld, Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing at Sun quoted “Now, the iPhone is open” as a target platform. “We’re going to make sure that the JVM offers the Java applications as much access to the native functionality of the iPhone as possible,” he added.

This means, once JVM is on the phone, a magnanimous number of Java applications such as java games, social tools like instant message aggregators, java music players would run on the phone. It was announced that free JVM would be made available via Apple’s AppStore marketplace for third-party applications.

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