[Jython-users] how jython works?

[Maurice L. <mau...@ac...>]

Hi,

I am wondering how Jython works in the background. My project now 
involves me to wrap a domain-specific language to Python. My 
understanding of Jython is that to run python codes on JVM, Jython wraps 
the codes in a set of Py_ objects (written in java) and runs it as java 
codes. So, each Py_ object will render the corresponding object all the 
properties of a python object. For example, Py_List will contains all 
the methods needed to manipulate python list objects.

Is this how Jython works? It apparently seems so when I tried to use 
jythonc to convert jython to java. Are there any published papers (in 
journals or conferences) that illustrates the working of jython?

Thanks a lot.

Cheers
Maurice