Java Implementation for Mono/.Net

IKVM.NET Home Page

"IKVM.NET is an implementation of Java for Mono and the Microsoft .NET Framework. It includes the following components:
A Java Virtual Machine implemented in .NET
A .NET implementation of the Java class libraries
Tools that enable Java and .NET interoperability
Read more about what you can do with IKVM.NET ..."

Uses for IKVM.NET
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Use Java libraries in your .NET applications
IKVM.NET includes ikvmc, a Java bytecode to .NET IL translator. If you have a Java library that you would like to use in a .NET application, run ikvmc -target:library mylib.jar to create mylib.dll.

For example, the Apache FOP project is an open source XSL-FO processor written in Java that is widely used to generate PDF documents from XML source. With IKVM.NET technology, Apache FOP can be used by any .NET application.

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I don't really do Java, but this still sounds interesting. I'm all about reuse, so if I can expand my reuse scope, then that makes this officially cool.

Still would I use something like this in a production environment? I'd need to do/see a great deal testing first...