As Michael says, you integrate using REST between Java and Python if TurboGears are involved. If you don't have a problem to solve that is matching a REST based design, you probably shouldn't use TurboGears in the first place anyway.
/Martin 2015-11-07 6:49 GMT+01:00 Michael Pedersen <[email protected]>: > Good evening. > > This is a super open ended question, so the answer to it is very > difficult. The sarcastic answers are "yes" and "when you identify the need" > and "using Python for the parts Python is good at, and Java for the parts > Java is good at". > > The not sarcastic answers, though: Yes, there are are times when you will > be using TurboGears and interacting with something from the Java world. As > to when, it will almost never be with code from one language calling code > from another language directly (if you've got that, you're using Jython, > and unlikely to be using TurboGears). Instead, you will be dealing with > well documented interfaces, usually via some socket based protocol (with > http being the most common, via a REST API). If you're dealing with a REST > API, then it doesn't matter if you've got Java running the backend. Use the > requests module (see http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ ), and > the rest is simply implementation details. > > If you're dealing with something else, you're still likely dealing with a > network connection. On the front end, TG will be responding to HTTP > requests from users, and getting some data from a backend server that > happens to be written in Java, using some network protocol. If you're > lucky, it's a common network connection (http, ftp, some database) and the > modules to communicate are already written. If you're unlucky, you might > have to roll your own (in which case, you're likely starting with the > standard Python sockets module, and I don't envy you). > > Outside of that, if you're trying to directly call some Java class from > your Python code, you're probably using Jython, and I'm not even certain > that TG2 *can* run on Jython. > > Really, when asking this sort of question, we would need more details to > provide any usable answers. What exactly are you trying to accomplish? What > are the options we're allowed to provide (for instance, can we recommend a > rewrite of the other side in Python? Can we recommend not using TG to > accomplish your goals?)? > > I hope this answer helps out a little bit, at least. > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 8:40 PM Robert James Liguori <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Are there any use cases where TurboGears2 can or should be integrated >> with Java? If so when and how? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TurboGears" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TurboGears" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Martin Eliasson +46 (0) 739 97 87 33 http://asplunden.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
