Python Popularity: Questions and Comments

[Paul Everitt]

Thanks for the pointer.  I got the download (had to register, grrr), but 
it doesn't seem to contain much except code.  The online pages seem to 
have API docs.  But I can't find much that documents the actual problem 
being solved.  It seems to all be about the code.  Is there some other 
place to find a step-by-step walkthrough of requirements, use cases, etc.?

--Paul

Henrik Motakef wrote:

> Paul Everitt <paul at zope.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>I'm interested in hearing more about the Pet Shop example you
>>mentioned.  Is it a canonical example that is written up somewhere
>>else for a different system?
>>
> 
> "The JavaTM Pet Store Demo is a sample application from the Java 2
> Platform, Enterprise Edition Blue Prints (J2EETM BluePrints) program
> at Java Software, Sun Microsystems. It demonstrates how to use the
> capabilities of the J2EE 1.3 platform to develop flexible, scalable,
> cross-platform enterprise applications"
> (http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/sampsource/petstore/index.html)
> 
> "Compared to the Java Pet Store, Microsoft claims that the .NET
> version requires one-third the lines of code (LOCs) and provides 28
> times faster average response times (for 450 concurrent users),
> requires one-sixth the CPU-utilization, and scales much better as the
> number of users increases."
> (http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/2001/11/28/catfight.html)
> 
> hth
> Henrik
>