Bob, I think that django would be a good match for what you want. > 1.need an equivalent option to tomcats servlet filters, to read the > headers and modify the request before it is processed.
It sounds like you are looking for the middleware option: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/middleware/ > 2.Custom tags, this will be because the site will be viewed on > different media with diferent capabilities and different tags, so > based on things found in requirement 1 these custom tags will be > replaced with the correct thing. I call them custom tags because in > java world that is what I would use. There are templatetags http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/, of which you can create custom tags, that you can use. But you might also be able to create different templates based on the contenttype. Being a former java guy myself, I'd say that django has almost all the features of the typical spring/hibernate stack, but it's way cooler and faster to use! Good Luck, Matt On Feb 21, 4:42 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > We have an opportunity to switch over from Java to something easier > for a series of sites that we will be doing. They will be small > simple sites but with a reasonable amount of traffic so performance > will be important. If this was a database based app I'd go into this > meeting suggesting django all the way but there are some caveats to > this project. I was hoping to get some opinions from this list about > what I should look into and if infact I should recommend django for > these. > > These sites wont be database based, we will get the content through > anxmlbasedapi. So obviously caching will be important in this. > > The other requirements are - > 1.need an equivalent option to tomcats servlet filters, to read the > headers and modify the request before it is processed. > 2.Custom tags, this will be because the site will be viewed on > different media with diferent capabilities and different tags, so > based on things found in requirement 1 these custom tags will be > replaced with the correct thing. I call them custom tags because in > java world that is what I would use. > > I'm not looking for detailed explanations of how to do this, just a > nod in the direction like - django templates can do that, yeah we have > intercepters for number 1, yeah use django it rocks. I am quite > biased since I've been looking for an excuse to use django for a > while. I even bought the book before, have to enter my email > everytime I open it - how annoying is that. But I must persuade > others it is the way to go. > > Thanks for any help > Bob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
