Reassuring the Java community, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison pledged a commitment to Java technologies, including the budding JavaFX rich media extension to Java, today at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco.

Oracle is in the process of buying Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion. Ellison was brought up on stage by Sun chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy, who suggested Ellison's friendship with Apple CEO Steve Jobs might help get Java onto the Apple iPhone, something that Apple hasn't let happen despite Sun's interest in doing so.

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