[SciPy-User] OT: calling Java from Python

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Christoph Gohlke <cgohlke at uci.edu> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/23/2010 12:49 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>
> CellProfiler <http://www.cellprofiler.org/> calls Java libraries
> (bioformats, ImageJ) via JNI. Take a look at
> <https://svn.broadinstitute.org/CellProfiler/trunk/CellProfiler/cellprofiler/utilities/javabridge.pyx>.


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Josef

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