I've been using a tool for a while and I like it so much I'd like to have it as an eclipse plugin. Unfortunately, I think it's written in C++. Is there any way such a code base could be used as the basis for a Eclipse plugin without re-writing it in Java?
BTW: the tool is closed source, commercial, maintained by someone else and would need to be used as a GUI widget. I'm mostly wondering if it would be at all likely that I could talk the owners into doing this.