Django on Jython
Chris McAvoy & Matt Dorn
DjangoCon
September 10th, 2009
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Who are we?
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The Goal
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Some History
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Why?
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Maturity
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“Rails Needs to Mature”
From my notes Dave Thomas’ Keynote at
Railsconf 2006
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“It turns out that writing the app is now the
easy part; managing the rest of the stack you
need for successful deployment can be nearly
impossible. In other words, we’re all ops
people now.” Jacob Kaplan Moss - Sept 4th 2009
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“We’re growing, but we’re
not mainstream” Ted, 15
minutes ago
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“Reign in the Cowboy”
Simon Willison - Tuesday
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The Market
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root
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Our Project
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How?
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Pieces
✴ Jython 2.5.0
✴ django-jython
‣ Provides support for Postgres & Sqlite3
‣ Build WAR files
‣ pip install django-jython
✴ zxJDBC
✴ Modjy
‣ Implements WSGI
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Dev Environment
✴ Install Jython
✴ Install setuptools & virtualenv
✴ Create virtualenv
✴ Install pip
✴ Install Django 1.1
✴ Install and patch django-jython
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Quirk Matrix
Django 1.0.x Django 1.1
Patch django-jython
Jython 2.5 Delete settings$py.class Postgres backend
✴ http://bit.ly/django-jython-fix
Patch django-jython
Jython 2.5rc1 Delete settings$py.class Postgres backend
✴ http://bit.ly/django-jython-fix
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✴ http://bit.ly/django-jython-fix
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No C
Which means, no PIL, which means no models.ImageField
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Questions?
✴ http://www.psclistens.com
✴ Chris McAvoy
‣ cmcavoy@psclistens.com
‣ http://lonelylion.com
‣ @cmcavoy (mostly about kites and toddlers)
✴ Matt Dorn
‣ mdorn@psclistens.com
‣ http://mattdorn.com
‣ @mattdorn (but really, he’s a twitter-hater)
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