Integrating Jython Cpython

I am about to begin a project where I will likely use PyQt or Pyside.

I will need to interface with a buggy 3rd party piece of server software that provides C++ and Java APIs. The Java APIs are a lot easier to use because you get Exceptions where with the C++ libraries you get segfaults. Also, the Python bindings to the Java APIs are automatic with Jython whereas the Python bindings for the C++ APIs don't exist.

So, how would a CPython PyQt client application be able to communicate with these Java APIs? How would you go about it?

Would you have another separate Java process on the client that serializes / pickles objects and communicates with the PyQt process over a socket?

I don't want to re-invent the wheel... is there some sort of standard interfac开发者_开发技巧e for these types of things? Some technology I should look into? RPC, Corba, etc?

Thanks, ~Eric

If you want to maintain complete isolation and increase your robustness (the 3rd party library going down and not taking your client, and if it's buggy I would recommend that) then perhaps something like CORBA is the way forwards. Don't forget that Java comes with a CORBA implementation as standard, so you just need to generate your C proxy from the IDL.

Swig may be of interest if you want to run stuff in-process. It simplifies the binding of components in different languages. Note in particular that it generates bindings for Python and Java.

If the criteria is not reinventing the wheel, there is the SimpleXMLRPCServer and xmlrpclib modules available in the standard library. They should work in Jython too.