J2EE/EJB and Python

[Richard Shea]

Silvana Di Martino <silvanadimartino at tin.it> wrote in message news:<mailman.203.1079863124.742.python-list at python.org>...
> My group recently received its first request for the the development of a 
> really large and complex enterprise-level application, the kind of app that 
> would require the use of tools like Enterprise Java Beans and J2EE (it is 
> something very similar to the "Titan Cruise" example supplied by Richard 
> Monson Haefel in his fine book "Enetrprise JavaBeans", for the people who 
> read it).
> 
> Of course, being all Pythonists, we wonder if there was any 
> project/architecture/technology like EJB and J2EE in/for Python.

I haven't had time to read the article myself yet but you might find
...

http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/web_modules_enterprise.html

... interesting.

[snip]
> Also, 
> we are aware of the fact that we can use Python and JPython together with 
> J2EE and EJB. 

I've thought about Jython/J2EE myself in the past - but is this
actually true ? I know very little about J2EE - is it the case that a
.jar (or whatever) produced out of Jython can be used within J2EE ? If
there are online examples/articles describing this I'd be interested
to hear of them.

thanks

richard shea.