Java integration library for Python

This project was started to create the Java integration library for Python outlined in this blog article by Tobias Ivarsson. The library suggested in the article seems to be well received, so it is probably a good idea to start working on implementing it. This is the home for that implementation.

The plan is to build the implementation in the open so that people can try it out and report any quirks, bugs or ideas back so that we can build a stable API that one day can make it into the standard Python distributions (aim high if you want to succeed).

At the moment the implementation is mainly in the discussion phase. There is a list of features and a ToDo list available here on the wiki. To join in on the discussion please sign up to the mailing list.

Licensing

For now the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3.0 has been chosen as the license for this library. This is a very permissive license that allow any licensing you want for code that use this library but require any derivative versions of the library to be released under the same license. This is fair since it allows anyone to use the library without restrictions, but helps getting patches back into the library. If good arguments are put forward it might be re-licensed under an even more permissive license, it is all still in discussion phase.