Maurice LING escreveu: > > > > I once wrote a partial JVM in Modula-3 (strictly a researchware > > effort), so I can imagine it being done technically. But why? > > > > The big problem with Java-and-Python is not the VMs underneath. It is > > the fact that Java has layers upon layers upon layers of idiosyncratic > > libraries and idioms. When you write bindings to that world (even if > > the bindings are generated automagically), you have to *think* in > > those same layers. The Python-oriented developer suddenly has to use > > a dozen imports in order to do things already done better in > > Pythonesque libraries. > > > > The main use I can see is to be able to incorporate Java applications > into Python. For example, I am using Cytoscape (www.cytoscape.org) which > is in Java. I do hope that I can control Cytoscape from Python and > manipulate its objects from Python. > > Say given cytoscape.jar, I'll like to be able to do this: > > >>> from cytoscape javaimport cytoscape > >>> c = cytoscape() > > And the tighest way I see that this can be done is for Python VM to > execute Java bytecodes like Python bytecodes. That is, Python VM > executes Java bytecodes directly and not through object mapping which I > think is that JPyPe is doing. > > I must say that this is part of even a fluffier dream that one day, I > can take any applications and play around with it in Python. Currently, > my collaborators wrote in Perl and Java, so it is not easy for me to use > their work in my work. > > ML
What is wrong with the other way around and Jython? Just curious. Stephen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
