Integrating Python code in NET Java

Question

Team,

I would like to know the Python code deployment formats & thoughts around how to integrate them in other technologies like .NET / Java. I would like to keep “Hosting Python code library as a Service / REST API” as a last preferable option to explore.   

Thanks in advance.

-- Rajesh

Answer 1

Hi,@Rajeshmthakkar,

Jython is a Python interpreter implemented in Java. It can be fully integrated into existing Java applications; alternatively, Python applications can be compiled into a collection of Java classes. Python programs running on the Jython virtual machine have full access to the Java classes and APIs.

More about Jython can be found here https://wiki.python.org/jython

Py4J enables Python programs running in a Python interpreter to dynamically access Java objects in a Java Virtual Machine. Methods are called as if the Java objects resided in the Python interpreter and Java collections can be accessed through standard Python collection methods. Py4J also enables Java programs to call back Python objects. To dig more into this her you go https://www.py4j.org/index.html

JPype is a Python module to provide full access to Java from within Python. It allows Python to make use of Java only libraries, exploring and visualization of Java structures, development, and testing of Java libraries, scientific computing, and much more. By gaining the best of both worlds using Python for rapid prototyping and Java for strongly typed production code, JPype provides a powerful environment for engineering and code development.

IronPython is an implementation of the Python programming language on the .NET Framework. It supports an interactive interpreter with a fully dynamic compilation.