Well, Django doesn't really extend App Engine with more functionality, because you probably could do everything you could do in Django in webapp and vice versa.
> What are the main advantages of using Django on the AppEngine? Well, if you ask me that would be support from the Django community (at least for Django related problems), a lot of reusable apps that will be easily portable to App Engine (in many cases you only have to port the model definitions, the rest should work), and independence of the App Engine environment. And you can make use of many of the shortcuts that are provided by Django to avoid repititive work. I think the App Engine devs chose to support Django because it is a great and very popular framework, and providing it will attract a lot of people that have experience with Django. In principle, however, every WSGI-compliant framework could be ported to appengine. If I'm informed correctly, Guido van Rossum used Django for his Rietveld project. If you want to get as much Django-Appengine integration as possible, try the app-engine-patch: http://code.google.com/p/app-engine-patch/ It even makes a lot of Django's generic views available in App Engine. Best Regards, Jesaja Everling On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Bobby <[email protected]> wrote: > > Group, i'm starting work on an AppEngine site and i was going to use > Django (i haven't used it before), i went through the Django docs and > i saw lots of useful features but many exist already on the AppEngine, > such as database models and forms (through > google.appengine.ext.db.djangoforms) - plus the concept of urls and > views seems to be easily reproduced in AppEngine without much code. > > In addition to this i'm seeing that the Django admin site has been > replaced by the AppEngine data viewer which isn't as powerful or > customizable right now, so i'm not seeing alot of reasons to use the > Django framework (other than wanting to). > > What are the main advantages of using Django on the AppEngine? (i can > see at least two disadvantages in having an additional layer and added > configuration/maintenance). Was Django made compatible with the > AppEngine (through the Appengine Helper for Django) mostly for > allowing users to port their existing Django apps over or does it > actually extend AppEngine with added functionality? > > I'm probably missing something, right? Let me know, thanks. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
