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Pyjnius: Accessing Java classes from Python

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This is pretty much a perfect example of when to leverage import hooks.

Can you explain that a bit more?

So that you could:

  from java.util import Stack

Instead of:

  from jnius import autoclass
  Stack = autoclass('java.util.Stack')

http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/sys/imports.html#custom-i...

Someone on reddit asked for it, we'll do it.

Interesting. It would be great to see some docs touching on pros/cons vs jython, jpype, etc

I for one am interested in keeping everything in cpython if possible. But I currently have a web service in jython...

Deocumentation: http://pyjnius.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

I've used JPype in the past, but unfortunately it seems pretty much dead.

This looks really promising. Thank you for the hard work.

Looks good!

Has anyone tried this for accessing a Java Socket API? (e.g. Interactive Brokers API) Im currently using Jython but would love to switch to "real" Python, unfortunately i am still a noob when it comes to get these things working..

@jpdus Will you elaborate on why you are eager to ditch Jython in favor of CPython? I guess I have a soft spot for Jython.

Overall this project looks very interesting- Can't wait to go through the source code at https://github.com/kivy/pyjnius to see how this works under the hood.

Cheers.

Mostly JNI, plus using our core class to use the java.reflect and discover methods and fields (you can't do it in JNI :/)

@jaytaylor The main reason for my part is that most/all my projects are pure python so far and im way more familiar with (C)Python and its libraries (numpy/scipy fe), dependencies, etc. than i am with Java. I like Jython too, but if i had the opportunity to do everything in pure Python i would ditch it nevertheless!

what's wrong with JCC?

http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/jcc/index.html

i have used it a lot to generate JNI bindings for other code via a simple Makefile template (list JARs and packages, alter names and versions, and poof). it works quite often, but it does run into some wonky C++ code it can't quite figure out.

still, pretty easy. one example are some (work-private) mahout bindings.

Does this mean we now have a convenient way to speak JMX from python? That would be very handy!

How are generics handled?

How does it handle the two types of exception?

When an exception from Java side is throw, we catch it, and raise our own JavaException python class.

Very promising, thanks for the great work!

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