Manipulate Indesign cliente from a Java Application

Hello, I need to manipulate Indesign client(open/close documents, create menus, tables, set colors etc... ) but I need to do that from a Java application. Is it possible? I was searching on google about it, even in Adobe's site, but the only way I found was thought Javascript, VbScript or AppleScript.
Thanks in advance!
Rafael

I can control inDesign from Python or shell scripts on osx via `osascript` This is roughly how it works.
My 'master' program runs shell command `osascript -e "tell Indesign blahblah end tell" /path/to/temporary.jsx`
`osascript` tells Indesign to execute "/path/to/temporary.jsx" as javascript
If all goes well, the value of last expression in .jsx is returned by `osascript` (serialised JSON works great for this)
Sorry I'm vague on real life code, but this is my home machine so it's not in my reach.
I realise it's an ugly hack. Main cons follow:
quotes have to be escaped couple of times so the result is messy and prone to errors (luckily it's one-off code that sits hidden behind main interface)
debugging this chain is nightmare (especially with my nigh-zero knowledge of applescript)
so far it's mac only (I suspect same thing can be achieved on Windows machine with VBS)
one cannot avoid writing lots of temporary files to the system. (luckily for me, it's only deployed on machines under my control, so the temp files are written to /tmp which is mounted on ramdisk)
The only pro I can think of is that it works. Whole comlexicity is wrapped in one python module, which I only see when squashing the bugs.
Marcel

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