Samuel's Tech Blog

Even though Python is a great platform with tons of libraries available, there are still a whole universe of functionality still available only in the Java world, and so, you will sometimes need to bridge the worlds together.

The easiest solution to do this would be to do a simple subprocess call to invoke the java code via a system call. This does not need any external libraries at all. The downside is that the startup time of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), which is at least around 100 milliseconds for a simple hello world type of program.

What do do then?