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Abstract

This part of the wiki is dedicated to describe inner structure of the codebase. This is not meant to be extensive documentation of what each class and method does. Instead, expect general information in terms of architecture description, design decisions and interfaces.

General architecture

Jackalope is a client-server sandwich, written in Python interfacing over some Java libraries. Even when called with a filename as argument, it will internally start a server to process the input by calling a client module.