jtypes.javabridge: running and interacting with the JVM from Python

The jtypes.javabridge Python package makes it easy to start a Java virtual machine (JVM) from Python and interact with it. Python code can interact with the JVM using a low-level API or a more convenient high-level API.

PyPI record.

jtypes.javabridge is an almost fully compliant implementation of Lee Kamentsky’s and Vebjorn Ljosa’s good known Javabridge package.

Original javabridge was developed for CellProfiler, where it is used together with python-bioformats to interface to various Java code, including Bio-Formats and ImageJ.

Original documentation

Contents:

• README
  • jtypes.javabridge
  • Overview
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • Development
  • License
  • Authors
• Installation and testing
  • Install using pip
  • Install without pip
  • Dependencies
  • Running the unit tests
• Hello world
• Starting and killing the JVM
  • API
  • Without GUI (headless mode)
  • With GUI on the Java side
  • With GUI on both the Java side and the Python side
• Executing JavaScript on the JVM
• High-level API
  • Signatures
  • Wrapping Java objects using reflection
  • Operations on Java objects
  • Hand-coding Python objects that wrap Java objects
  • Useful collection wrappers
  • Reflection
  • Executing in the correct thread
  • Exceptions
• The low-level API
• Calling Python from Java
  • Maintaing references to Python values
• Unit testing
• For jtypes.javabridge developers
  • Build from git repository
  • Make source distribution and publish
  • Upload source distribution built by Jenkins
• Changelog
  • 1.0.18b3 (2018-11-08)
  • 1.0.18b1 (2018-10-01)
  • 1.0.17b2 (2018-05-29)
  • 1.0.14b4 (2018-02-26)
  • 1.0.14b3 (2018-01-29)
  • 1.0.14b2 (2017-01-01)
  • 0.1.1a1 (2014-10-05)

Indices and tables

• Index
• Search Page