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  Hi Roman,

On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Roman Chyla wrote:

> Your help is great, thanks a lot! Without your detailed instructions,
> I would not be able to figure it out - and the last bit with the
> python...I should have thought before writing :-)
>
> I call the class EMQL just because I was lazy to change it. But I will
> do now that I understand little bit more. What I find very cool is the
> fact, that if I build this extension the way you showed me, I can run
> java from inside python, but also python from inside Java - and with
> one jar and one compiled egg. Very handy. But as you said, evil is in
> details, so I expect some bumps.
>
> And about the thing with LFLAGS 'platform Python', also other
> platforms will need something similar like Mac? I assume this is a mac
> dynamic discovery of the libraries, will anything bad happen if I
> changed the path of the Python now when the extension was built?

I don't know, I don't distribute binaries :-)

The 'otool -L' command on the mac will show you what libraries the linker is 
going to be looking for for a given shared library. The DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH 
(?) and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH env vars may help you in overriding this but I'm 
not so sure.

Andi..

>
>
> Cheers!
>
>  roman
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Andi Vajda <vajda@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> �Hi Roman,
>>
>> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Roman Chyla wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the help, now I was able to run the java and loaded
>>> PythonVM. I then built the python egg, after a bit of fiddling with
>>> parameters, it seems ok. I can import the jcc wrapped python class and
>>> call it:
>>>
>>> In [1]: from solrpie_java import emql
>>
>> Why are you calling your class EMQL ? (this name was just an example culled
>> from my code).
>>
>>> In [2]: em = emql.Emql()
>>>
>>> In [3]: em.javaTestPrint()
>>> java is printing
>>>
>>> In [4]: em.pythonTestPrint()
>>> just a test
>>>
>>> But I haven't found out how to call the same from java.
>>
>> Ah, yes, I forgot to tell you how to pull that in.
>> In Java, you import that 'EMQL' java class and instantiate it by way of the
>> PythonVM instance's instantiate() call:
>>
>> � � � � � �import org.blah.blah.EMQL;
>> � � � � � �import org.apache.jcc.PythonVM;
>>
>> � � � � � �.............
>>
>> � � � � � �PythonVM vm = PythonVM.get();
>>
>> � � � � � �emql = (EMQL) vm.instantiate("jemql.emql", "emql");
>> � � � � � �... call method on emql instance just created ...
>>
>> The instantiate("foo", "bar") method in effect asks Python to run
>> �"from foo import bar"
>> �"return bar()"
>>
>> Andi..
>>
>
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