the need for J2EE-like standards for Python

[Max Ischenko]

Hi, all.

I think many would agree that the community-agreed standards could boost 
the development of the [python] applications in a defined areas. In 
particular, the lack of J2EE-like standards about servlets or 
transactions impedes development of web/enterpise applications.

It shoudn't be overly complex and elaborate like J2EE but it could be 
much simple, like, say, DB-API. As it is now, when developing 
non-trivial Python application we have to face the substantial risk of 
"lock-in" to particular framework/vendor. The fact that the framework is 
open source and not proprietary doesn't help much. It is usually too 
much work to abstract from a particular framework used and it looks like 
a wrong answer anyway. It is IMO better to invent/publish such an 
abstraction beforehand so that different frameworks could implement it.

There is many topics that could be addressed: servlet containers, 
component architecture, naming service, etc, etc.

What do the community think?
Is there an interest to this direction of "maturing" among the Python 
developers?
May be there is already something going on which I'm not aware of?

Seems to me that the current diversity of offering for basic 
infrastructure things like web interaction is caused by uncertainty 
about how it should be done and range of options on the subject.

Hopefully this would sorted out finally, but why not to hurry it a bit. ;)