Title: Welcome to JCC, PyLucene's code generator

##What is JCC ?

JCC is a C++ code generator that produces a C++ object interface
wrapping a Java library via Java's Native Interface (JNI). JCC
also generates C++ wrappers that conform to Python's C type system
making the instances of Java classes directly available to a Python
interpreter.

When generating Python wrappers, JCC produces a complete Python
extension module via the distutils or
[setuptools](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools) packages. 

See [here](features.html) for more information and documentation about JCC.

##Requirements

JCC is supported on Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and Windows.

JCC requires Python version 2.x (x >= 3.5) and Java version 1.x
(x >= 4). Building JCC requires a C++ compiler. Use of
[setuptools](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools) is recommended.

See the [installation instructions](install.html) for more information about
building JCC from sources.

##Source Code

The source code to JCC is part of PyLucene's and can be obtained with
a subversion client from
[here](http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/pylucene/trunk/jcc)

##Mailing List

If you'd like to contribute to JCC or are having issues or questions
with JCC, please subscribe to the PyLucene developer [mailing list](../mailing-lists.html)