I responded on your blog; it's been flagged as spam. In the meantime, my response is reproduced below.
--- Hi Alan, I think you're misconstruing my comments at the event. While I can't recall how I phrased it exactly, the gist of what I intended to say was that while it was possible to run Jython on App Engine, I couldn't think why you'd want to. I didn't mean to imply that I was certain it wasn't ever useful. The use-case I described after the talk was one I'd encountered where a user wanted to port his Python app to Java (or vice-versa) progressively, without interrupting service - not a case of prototyping, but rather migration. I also think your example of cryptography libraries for library support is perhaps not the best one: It's especially important in cryptography not to have a profusion of libraries, but rather to have at least one really good one. KeyCzar (http://www.keyczar.org/) is, in my opinion at least, an example of such a library - and it's available natively for both Python and Java. Please don't take these corrections as criticism of the concept of Jython on App Engine, though. I love to see novel uses of App Engine and of programming languages in general. I'm sure an article on how to write a basic webapp in Jython on App Engine would be very well received - as would further practical examples of using the two together. -Nick Johnson On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Alan Kennedy <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear all, > > In response to the assertion during the excellent "Python on > AppEngine" talk (given to Python Ireland by Google's Nick Johnson) > that there is no point in running jython on Google AppEngine, and that > one should just use the AppEngine cpython support instead, I have > written a blog post explaining why I think this assertion is wrong. > > http://jython.xhaus.com/jython-on-google-appengine-why-bother/ > > Regards, > > Alan. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Ireland" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<pythonireland%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pythonireland?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" 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/pythonireland?hl=en.
