Task: Need to make a little web-app for a relative of mine who runs a small business.
So I’ve decied to go with Django. Why? Of course I wanted to use SEAM, not because of some Java SEAM (and to a certain extent, JBoss) fetish, but mainly because this is what I have been using, thus I don’t want to abandon it. But, I’m using a shared host that is mainly Apache (no mod_python) based, that is, it’s not a J2EE application server. So can’t use SEAM there. However, it does have python support (I’m going to use FastCGI)… So I’m saved! Yeah.
I’ve been doing the DJango tutorial, so far it kicks ass. Everything is just so succinct, it’s beautiful man. Python is a work of art, imho! Doing web work with Python will be a blast!
One of the biggest thing that SEAM touts is the so called stateful-web-application (which I’m not going to get into right now), the SEAM stateful framework is one of the major features that supposely makes it stand out. I do not have much experience with various web-app frameworks, so I can’t tell you whether that is true or not. However, I will blog about experiences with Django and will try to make a comparison against SEAM. In the sense of ease of use, features, etc. (Definitely not going to go near the scalability question). Of course I’m probably comparing apples with oranges… And I only have intermediate knowledge of SEAM, and web development in general. Since this is my blog, I will just blog it, I don’t care whether it makes sense, is right, or whatever. *Shrugs*
