Re: [Jython-users] porting spring/hibernate app to jython/django

[Aljosa M. <alj...@gm...>]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Leo Soto M.<leo...@gm...> wrote:
>> is it possible to combine parts of jython/django to integrate with
>> existing java apps, in this case spring/hibernate?
>
> Sure!
>
> You can, for example, use Django's views/templates/urls.py (and
> perhaps forms and the others rendering-related helpers) while still
> using hibernate as the ORM.

i guess the best entry point is replacing spring url handler with
django urls but i don't know how to start.
any docs you could recommend or some source code where i can figure
out how to start?

> You will loose stuff which depends on Django's ORM like the Admin and
> Auth (and perhaps Sessions). There are ways to workaround the problem,
> but I don't know if this is relevant in your use case. I suspect you
> just want a simpler way for your app to interact with HTTP and the
> browser and Django is a good solution for that.

plan is to completely replace spring/hibernate with django (there was
some talk that ibm will open source django DB2 support) but i would
like to be realistic and not rush in.

Aljosa Mohorovic