You can subclass Java classes in Python and then use them from Java code as that Java type. This technique is explained in Accessing Jython from Java Without Using jythonc and its followup, Simple and Efficient Jython Object Factories. As the title of the first article above suggests, you can also expose Python code to Java with jythonc.
However, as jythonc will not be included in Jython-2.3 its use is not recommended for the future. More.
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