I had heard of such projects back in the day, but didn't know if they were still in service (and I didn't take the time to research it). I had some skepticism about whether IKVM had kept up with the rapid moving target that is the JRE, but after seeing that it runs Minecraft[0], I'm guessing it'll likely be alright :-)
But holy shit, who in their right mind still uses CVS?!
In particular: http://sourceforge.net/p/ikvm/wiki/Ikvmc/