O’Reilly ONJava has published an article on IKVM which I hope conveys my excitement about this technology.
Think about it… you’ve had no chance to find open source projects providing you the functionality of FOP and POI if you were writing code in C#. IKVM lets you do that, and I think it’s a pretty deal. And that’s the reason I am so excited about that project.
In case you are wondering about the choice of FOP as an example, since, unfortunately, FOP requires a small patch on its last released version to work with IKVM (the “have you tested your code being loaded by the BootClassloader?” issue that afflicts many alternative VM’s), while POI works out of the box (at least for simple stuff) … well, can’t have all my articles talk about POI!
Update:
1. Discussion on TheServerSide
2. Jeroen likes the article :)