I've got a fairly substantial webapp written in Java (plus Tomcat, Hibernate, Struts, JSP, MySQL) that is a bit of a bear to work with. I didn't write it. Much of it is only very sparsely documented (if at all). No design docs anywhere. It's a large webapp with many classes and fairly deep inheritance hierarchies. There seems to be JUnit test cases in place.
The possibility of re-writing it has come up, and I must say that, although it would likely be a ton of work, it could also be a real pythonic adventure. ;) Reasons for a rewrite are to get better flexibility, easier maintenance (easier to make changes), and the possibility of really slimming down the size of the thing. And of course, it would be nice to work with Python -- possibly significantly more productive. Does anyone here have any experience with large(ish) webapps in Python? I was sniffing around the following A-team of toolkits: CherryPy, Cheetah, SQLObject, all behind Apache2. Has anyone seen performance issues with Python webapps? Could one reasonably expect to have an easier time with maintainence and future modifications with using Python over Java? Any tips, stories, recommendations, and/or experiences are most welcome. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
