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How does one go about implementing a scripting engine (I'm thinking Jython) into Java?

I've never done this before, so one major question that I have is; how does the scripting engine know what function calls or fields are available to it?

Is there a simple tutorial to follow on implementing jython into a game? A book possibly?

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    Found my answer at Jython documentation, and the integration is seemless! Very amused by this! Commented May 12, 2011 at 19:54
  • Would you be so kind and help the community (and future googlers) by providing a brief explanation as an answer? Commented May 22, 2011 at 20:15
  • . could you please let us know how can this be done .. Commented Jun 21, 2011 at 7:20

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If you have jython.jar in your path you can start a PythonInterpreter, which can execute and compile strings and files and from which you can get python objects (Strings, Integers, Objects, Functions).

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I created a Java interface and implemented that java interface using python. That way when you get the python class back as a java instance you can type cast it to the interface and know what methods are available. __call__ and __tojava__ are the jython methods to get an instance back from a python implementation.

The Jython Book has a pretty good example and tutorial on how to do this.

http://www.jython.org/jythonbook/en/1.0/JythonAndJavaIntegration.html#using-jython-within-java-applications

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