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I would love a "Ruby on Rails for Django devs" article too, if anyone has something like that.

So would I - a "Spring for Django devs" article would be pretty useful too.

Having done web development exclusively in Python (Zope,...,Django), I some time feel that I may be missing out on the advances in a large ecosystem like J2EE(Spring etc.,)

I would be eager to read such an article too.

I don't think you're missing out on a lot, and that's coming from someone who uses both Spring and Django daily. There are a lot of Spring projects, but just to give you an example: - Spring Security --> django.contrib.auth - Spring MVC --> well, Django urls, models, views and templates. - Spring Core/Beans (the dependency injection part) --> do you think you need it?

In the average JEE project, that's all you'll be using as far as Spring goes. Or maybe add Spring Integration or Spring Batch.

That would imply writing n(n-1)/2 "X for Y devs" articles, or an O(n^2) complexity.

A much better way would be to have an universal standard, possibly abstract framework with which all frameworks are contrasted. This way, only n comparison articles need be written, giving a linear cost.

Sorry, could not abstain. OTOH, this principle is mighty useful when writing conversion software. Just write converters to and from a standard format.

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