On Nov 5, 9:11 pm, Travis Parks <jehugalea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello: > > A new guy showed up at work a few weeks ago and has started talking > about replacing a 6 month old project, written in ASP.NET MVC, with an > open source solution that can handle massive scaling. I think his > primary concern is the "potential" need for massive web farms in the > future. In order to prevent high licensing costs, I think he wants to > move everything to open source technologies, such as the LAMP stack. I > also don't think he truly understands what ASP.NET MVC is and thinks > it is the older WebForms. > > I have been researching open source MVC frameworks and came across > Django. It looks like an awesome tool, but I am willing to look at > others. I have experience in Python (and enough in PHP to want to > avoid it and absolutely none in Ruby) so I think it would be a good > language to develop in. > > I was wondering if there were any ORMs for Python that used POPOs > (plain old Python objects). There is a lot of business logic in my > system, and so I want to keep my data objects simple and stupid. I > want the ORM to be responsible for detecting changes to objects after > I send them back to the data layer (rather than during business layer > execution). Additionally, being a stateless environment, tracking > objects' states isn't very useful anyway. > > Honestly, I doubt this guy is going to get his wish. The people paying > for the application aren't going to be willing to throw 6 months of > work down the drain. Never the less, I want to have plenty of research > under my belt before being asked what my thoughts are. He was talking > about using the Zend Framework with PHP, but I want to avoid that if > possible. Django seems like one of the best MVC solutions in the > Python arena. I would be willing to replace Django's ORM solution with > something else, especially if it supported POPOs. I could even map all > of the non-POPOs to POPOs if I needed to, I guess. > > Finally, I wanted to ask whether anyone has tried having Django call > out to Python 3 routines. I am okay using Python 2.7 in Django, if I > can have the controllers call business logic implemented in Python 3, > accepting POPOs from the data layer. Django would really just be a > coordinator: grab data from Django ORM, convert results into POPOs, > load up Python 3 module with business logic, passing POPOs, returning > POPOs and then converting those to view models. I'm sweating just > thinking about it. My guess is that there would be a severe penalty > for crossing process boundaries... but any insights would be > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Travis Parks
Hello Travis, I am not an expert in the field, but I have used SQLAlchemy (www.sqlalchemy.org) for a while and was very happy with it. It should be able to scale up to pretty complex applications and large amounts of data. Regards, Marco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
