Well, as I didn't have a lot of other things weighing on me today, I created a Django implementation of the extdirect package I released earlier today. It's slightly more involved to set up, probably due to my not knowing Django nearly as well as Zope (suggestions welcome, Django enthusiasts), but after the initial setup writing the router classes is just as easy. Here's how to do it.

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With ExtJS 3.0 came Ext.Direct, an excellent library for remoting server-side methods to the client side. We had already made the decision to switch to Ext with the revamped Zenoss UI, so I'd been working with Ext quite a lot; in the upcoming 2.5 release, there's a brand-new event console that makes heavy use of Ext.Direct. After learning its ins and outs with all that work, I decided to write a Python version of the server-side component to make it easier to use; I then went further and created a Zope 2 and 3 compatible component that makes it trivial. extdirect is the result. Here's some brief instruction on how to use it.

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