This is an interessting video about the plugin eclipse4SL from Soyatec.

This plugin allows Eclipse / Java developers to build RIA with Silverlight and collaboration between Web Designers, .NET Developers and Java Developers.

What are the options when you need to integrate Windows legacy code in a heterogeneous Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)?

The proposed problem was to expose a set of Windows C++ DLLs to a global SOA platform written in Java. Those DLLs would be then exposed as backend computation services.