[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. ;) <snip> > Any tips, stories, recommendations, and/or experiences are most > welcome. >
A class-to-class and method-to-method rewrite will give some but likely not the full benefit of moving to Python. A redesign might be necessary - making it more 'Pythonic' in the process. In my experience, many cruft classes that exist in a Java design simply disappear when ported to Python. See also http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html Cheers, Shalabh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
