Java-Com interoperability
IBM announces another technology for COM-Java interoperability.
Development Tool for Java-COM Bridge is a tool for developing and enabling tight communication between JavaTM- and COM-based applications. An application running on Microsoft Windows® systems is typically constructed as a set of interconnecting components entirely based on Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) technology, or on Java technology. There is not a simple, direct way to connect a COM-based component with a Java-based component.
In the past I develop so really cool examples using BEA JCOM, the fact is that java and ms developers have a lot of option to think in interoperability.