Eric, could you be a bit more specific about what kind of "J2EE" the application was originally written in?
Was it using Struts, Spring, EJBs (which version), Hibernate, JSF...? Or Just plain old JSPs+Servlets? S. Eric Walstad wrote: > Jacob, > > Thanks very much for organizing, and paying for, the dinner last > night. It was a pleasure meeting you and the other guys that showed > up. I enjoyed the lively conversations. > > At dinner I mentioned the application that we recently rolled out, the > California Instant Rebates application > <http://cainstantrebates.com/> > > One of the guys asked about it wanting to know how many source lines > of code. I didn't mention last night that this app was a ground-up > rewrite of version one of the application, which was written (by > others) in Java/J2EE. Here's a sloc comparison summary: > > Java version: > 23,150 lines of java code > 16,090 lines of jsp code > ========================= > 39,240 lines of code total > (no documentation, no unit tests) > > Python version: > 14,928 lines of python code* > 3,677 lines of unit test code > 6,376 lines of django templates > ========================= > 24,981 lines of code total > *(includes plenty of doc strings) > > Now it's not really a fair comparison because the Python version has > more features than the Java version did and it was designed by > another team. The Python version is also much easier to debug > because of the unit testing framework, documentation and sane design. > All things considered, this app has been a huge success for me, my > team and our clients. Three cheers for Python and Django! > > Eric --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
