It's not exactly the same as having full Java support on the iPhone, but it's the next best thing. New Zealand-based Innaworks has announced their beta-stage "alcheMo" application that will port Java-based games and applications to work on the iPhone and iPod Touch. alcheMo allows developers to convert their standard Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) [...]

According to the technical evangelist for the Java mobile and embedded community at Sun, Terrence Barr, with the release of the so-much-needed SDK in February 2008 , iPhone users may be able to play and use Java games and apps. Barr argues the open-source phoneME platform could be converted to run on the iPhone, hence opening the “Java world” to the iPhone community. Of course, not many people know what Jobs&co are working on, but somehow this makes sense. After all, we already know iPhone’s CPU supports hardware Java acceleration . Hopefully, we’ll see it actually being used after the MacWorld. Stay tuned… [Via: PocketGamer.co.uk ] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Apple iPhone web-apps run on Nokia phones too!iPhone SDK to be announced at WWDC?100 free iPhone gamesSony Ericsson K770i developer specsComBOTS Mobile brings rich media communication to many of the Java-enabled handsets