I am about to begin a project where I will likely use PyQt or Pyside.
I will need to interface with a buggy 3rd party piece of server software that provides C++ and Java APIs.  The Java APIs are a lot easier to use because you get Exceptions where with the C++ libraries you get segfaults.  Also, the Python bindings to the Java APIs are automatic with Jython whereas the Python bindings for the C++ APIs don't exist.
So, how would a CPython PyQt client application be able to communicate with these Java APIs?  How would you go about it?
Would you have another separate Java process on the client that serializes / pickles objects and communicates with the PyQt process over a socket?
I don't want to re-invent the wheel... is there some sort of standard interface for these types of things?  Some technology I should look into?  RPC, Corba, etc?
Thanks,
~Eric
If the criteria is not reinventing the wheel, there is the SimpleXMLRPCServer and xmlrpclib modules available in the standard library. They should work in Jython too.
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