Framework recommendations for web service?

2008-07-16 Thread Phillip B Oldham
We're looking at the next phase of development for our webapp, and the main focus will be to move the core from the app to a web service so other systems can use the data we've gathered (we're thinking along the lines of the XML API of Highrise from 37Signals). Its possible that we'll extend the

Re: Framework recommendations for web service?

2008-07-16 Thread Joshua Kugler
Phillip B Oldham wrote: So, can anyone suggest a lightweight python framework which just does the essentials? web.py is pretty slim (not to be confused with web2py). Pylons isn't very large, depending on what you call essential. j -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Framework recommendations for web service?

2008-07-16 Thread Ivan Ven Osdel
What we *do* need is a lightweight, simple framework that will allow us to create a RESTful interface and throw code together fast. We'll probably go with SQLObject (unless we can extract the ORM from django - lazy evaluation would be very useful), and we're just looking for something fast and

Re: Framework recommendations for web service?

2008-07-16 Thread Ivan Ven Osdel
I don't think RESTful interfaces are built in but I know people have succesfully built RESTful apps on top of CherryPy. Also plans for REST in CherryPy 3 look promising. Here is a post I ran across from one of the contributers. Hey there, CherryPy 3 is currently under brainstorming before

Re: Framework recommendations for web service?

2008-07-16 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
web2py (not to be confused with web.py although both of them are excellent) comes with XMLRPC, XML, JSON and RSS API. You can find an XMLRPC example here: http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples/default/examples#xmlrpc_examples The web2py source (including the optional web based interface) fits

Re: Framework recommendations for web service?

2008-07-16 Thread Larry Bates
Phillip B Oldham wrote: We're looking at the next phase of development for our webapp, and the main focus will be to move the core from the app to a web service so other systems can use the data we've gathered (we're thinking along the lines of the XML API of Highrise from 37Signals). Its