python equivalent of java technologies

[Armin]

Hello,

When comparing python and java with a colleague who is fan of java,
she challenged me to find in python the equivalent to the following
technologies. Could you please help telling if we have something
equivalent in python or not and how they compare to the java
solutions?

- persistance framework (~hibernate)
- transational monitor (distributed transaction), XA compliance
(message system, DB) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X/Open_XA)
- web openess sur le web (web service)
- RIA and web deployable graphic library
- scheduling (quartz)
- secutity (PKI, single sign-on...)
- reporting (Jasper)

Thanks a lot!
Marko

You could tell her to try Jython. In that, you can just use the Java
implementations. Plus, you have things in Jython that Java doesn't

 

[Armin]

Exactly. Her challenges to find stuff have to do with the JVM, not Java the
language. Python runs on the JVM.

Indeed, afaik, Jython produces Java byte-code.

 

[markolopa]

Hello,

When comparing python and java with a colleague who is fan of java,
she challenged me to find in python the equivalent to the following
technologies. Could you please help telling if we have something
equivalent in python or not and how they compare to the java
solutions?

- persistance framework (~hibernate)
- transational monitor (distributed transaction), XA compliance
(message system, DB) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X/Open_XA)
- web openess sur le web (web service)
- RIA and web deployable graphic library
- scheduling (quartz)
- secutity (PKI, single sign-on...)
- reporting (Jasper)

Thanks a lot!
Marko

 

[Mike Driscoll]

Hello,

When comparing python and java with a colleague who is fan of java,
she challenged me to find in python the equivalent to the following
technologies. Could you please help telling if we have something
equivalent in python or not and how they compare to the java
solutions?

- persistance framework  (~hibernate)
- transational monitor (distributed transaction), XA compliance
(message system, DB) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X/Open_XA)

See SqlAlchemy (or any DB_API module like adodb.py or pymssql),
SqlObject, Dabo for DB stuff. See PubSub for one type of messaging:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pubsub/1 to 3

- web openess sur le web (web service)

Python supports lots of web services. Here are a couple of links:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-pyth1.html
http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/

It also has lots of web frameworks, such as Django, TurboGears,
Pylons, Web2Py, Plone/Zope

- RIA and web deployable graphic library
- scheduling (quartz)

Maybe this: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nssbackup/+spec/use-python-schedule

- secutity (PKI, single sign-on...)

I assume this is supposed to be "security". TurboGears can probably do
this:

http://docs.turbogears.org/1.0/RoughDocs/OpenIDWithIdentity

If you do some Googling, it looks like Django does too...

- reporting (Jasper)
reportlab?


Thanks a lot!
Marko

Alternatively, you could also use Jython, which can just use the Java
implementations...

Mike

 

[Tim Hoffman]

Hi

Well zope has quite a few of these out of the box and have been around
for a bit longer than some of the java options.

Specifically persistence (ZODB persistence in zope is pretty much
completely autmomatic)
you can inplement web services with it (xmlrpc out of the box, though
I assume you mean soap)
zope encompasses security/ and authentication and can easily be
integrated with a range of single signon environments.
there are a range of scheduling services in to, but which is most like
quartz I am not sure about.
zope does support distributed transactions, but I not XA , but is
ACID.

In general there are a heap of interfaces for python do different
message queues/buses, take you pick of you favourite platform.

Not sure about reporting that is equivalent to jasper.

T

 

[Tim Hoffman]

Oops ,

for RIA there is always pyjamas (gwt for python ;-)

T