[Jython-users] Django on jython - Some questions

[Kapil S. <ksa...@gm...>]

Dear all,

First of all thanks for the excellent work done by Leo on making django work
on jython (and hence the JVM, App Servers etc).

Let me first admit that django is the best web application framework that I
have used in comparison to any other web framework on any platform (java,
.net, php etc).

Seeing my favorite framework (django) running on a rich java platform (I am
more interested in the java libraries that I could use now and not the java
language) and using a very good dynamic langauge i.e python makes me think
that it is the ideal combination but then some questions come up and the
most difficult for me to get around are:

- Would django on Jython running on Java web platforms (Tomcat, Glassfish
etc) would be a good choice for highly available and scablable web
application ?
- Java AppServers/containers manage the HttpSession which can be clustered
using various ways - Terracaotta or container provider clustering where as
django does the session management by itself.
- Default choice for django to do caching would be memcache but does that
work for Java web platforms or it is even a right direction ?

Would appreciate if you guys could help me with these questions.

Regards & thanks
Kapil