C++ beats J2EE for SOA?

SOA Pipeline has a
nice article on
C++ potentially beating J2EE in terms of utility for building SOA technology on
top of legacy systems. Now that C++ SOA frameworks have generally reached
the same level of developer productivity as those of other languages, it
makes perfect sense that extending a C++ application with web
services would be easier to do using C++ than by slapping some Java on top
of the existing C++. They call out RogueWave's LEIF framework as a good
option for multiplatform web services. I haven't tried LEIF, but it sounds
cool. Of course, Visual C++ developers have the option of ATL for native
web services or ASP.NET web services for managed
code.