# Howtos for migrating your AEP applications to Kay

Introduction

Here are some considerations about how to migrate AEP applications to Kay.

Things you have to care about

• Forms

kay.utils.forms module is slightly different from AEP. kay.utils.forms.modelform is a module for autogenerating forms from model definition. Please refer to the official documentation for a typical usage of forms module. Syntax and usage is slightly different.

• User

Significant differences. Likely easiest route is to export your user model data from AEP and import into kay models.

• render_to_response/direct_to_template

Almost identical in kay.

• Http utils

Almost identical in kay. Symbol names are slightly different from AEP.

• RequestContext

Very similar functionality in kay.

• URL Mapping

Completely different. You'll need to re-write your urls.py to match kay's format.

• Auth

Almost identical in kay. Some syntax differences.

• Request/Response object

Significant differences. Please refer to the documentation.