All things Jythonic 2004/12

A WSGI server for jython 2.1

Modjy is an implementation of a WSGI compliant gateway/server for jython, built on J2EE servlets. Python Web Server Gateway Interface, as specified in Python Enhancement Proposal 333, is a proposal for a "simple and universal interface between web servers and [python] web applications or frameworks".

Jython Webapp Tutorial - Part 1 - Writing Servlets in Jython

Here is a tutorial on setting up and building Jython webapps.  Quick Contents:

• Installing Jython
• Installing Apache Tomcat
• Configuring Tomcat to run Jython Servlets
• Running Jython Servlets from the command line
• Accessing the Jython library

Looks good and there is more coming. Here is the overal direction the effort is taking:

• Part 1 - Writing Servlets with Jython
• Part 2 - Process XML with the Xerces and Xalan libraries from Jython
• Part 3 - JMS Messaging from Jython with ActiveMQ
• Part 4 - From web-front end to process-to-process integration with Jython
• Part 5 - Summarizing the benefits of Jython and dynamic typing in general for Webapp development.

I'm looking forward to the rest!