[SciPy-User] OT: calling Java from Python

[Christopher Barker]

Hi folks,

This is a bit OT, but y'all tend to be a great resource for lots of 
stuff, and this is python-for-science related:

Are there any active projects supporting calling Java from CPython?

It seems JPE and JPype are both pretty dead, and I don't see much else 
except maybe Babel:

https://computation.llnl.gov/casc/components/#page=home

  -- thought that seems kind of like yet another language!)

My use case:

Lately Unidata has put a lot more emphasis on the JAVA implementation of 
the netcdf libraries that the C one, so it has a lot of nifty features 
not supported for C, and therefore for Python.

There is this project for calling the netcdf JAVA libs from MATLAB:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/njtbx

Which made me think that it would be nice to have something similar for 
Python. With the Python C api and JNI (and maybe Cython), it should be 
possible, but I sure don't want to start doing that from scratch.

gnu CNI looks promising, too.


There is a lot going on in the JAVA world, it would be nice to access 
some of that.

Are any of you doing anything like this? Any thoughts? There


-Chris




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