Ah, good point about being able to make use of existing Django apps. Thanks.
Bobby On Dec 15, 2:46 pm, "Jesaja Everling" <jeverl...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <bobbysoa...@gmail.com> 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.- Hide quoted > > text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
