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Avik Sengupta has a good introductory article to IKVM, which can be best described as a Java Virtual Machine for the .NET CLR. So if you are creating a .NET application, but want to use that cool new Java library that doesn't yet have a .NET counterpart, here's a solution for you. Conversely, if you are a Java developer who wants to call a .NET library from Java, IKVM is what you need.

This should be very useful for interoperability between the two platforms but I doubt that anyone will use the Java language to write .NET programs or if it will bring the two communities together.