Re: [Jython-users] accessing win32com.client from jython

[Kevin B. <kb...@ca...>]

I haven't explored this, but it seems you could use JNI to embed C python in the JVM, then invoke Python code in the CPython interpreter.

Python-In-Python, anyone?

kb

dman wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:01:30PM +0000, Dan...@at... wrote:
> | Is there a way in which I can access win32 libraries
> | from jython?
> | CPython has a set of excellent containers for windws
> | platform specific tools. Is there any way in which I can
> | access these capabilities from Jython as a way of
> | bridging Java and COM without.
> | Has anyone ever explored this?
> | I know that I could architect things such that I could
> | use sockets to communicate from Java/Jython to Cpython-
> | hosting-COM, but that seems unecessarily cumbersome to
> | me.
> | Anyone have another approach.
> 
> Microsoft's JVM supports COM.  It is the only one that does, though.
> Part of java's goal is to be portable.  As such it can't rely on the
> underlying platform.  A major difference between Java and CPython is
> that java takes the least common denominator approach, whereas CPython
> (the docs) just warn you that your program won't be portable.
> 
> You could also use any other distributed object middleware to connect
> Java/Jython to CPython to take advantage of stuff java doesn't let you
> use.  For example: XML-RPC or CORBA.
> 
> -D
> 
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