[Jython-users] Jython servlets as an interface between JSP and external Python applications

[Erik B. <er...@ek...>]

I'm currently building a web service using Python cig, but my
application is now getting a bit too heavy to work well as a cgi. As
mod_python is not supported by the web-server provider, I was thinking
of using Jython together with JSP to run my application. The problem
is that the python source I like to use is written in Python 2.3 and
widely uses new-style classes. In extent, I'm using MySQLdb
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python 
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python>) and 4Suite (4suite.org 
<http://4suite.org>)
which is partly implemented in C.

As I began to realise that it will be very hard to actually run my
application inside Jython, I was thinking of using a Jython servlet to
execute an external Python application. If I could only connect the
i/o streams in a sufficient way, I believe that it could be a pretty
nice solution. So I guess my question is, has any of you done
something like this, could put me in the right direction, and do you
think it would be a sufficient solution? Alternately, any thoughts of
how to get around this problem, with or without Jython, would be
greatly appreciated.

..Erik