[Webware-discuss] Class variables and thread safety

2003-06-11 Thread Travis Whitton
Hello all - I'm currently working on a project that uses Webware for the backend. I've setup a class hierarchy that has multiple children classes derived from a foundation class. The foundation class handles database connection pooling and other global operations. In order to allow transactions to

[Webware-discuss] Re: WebDAV kit

2003-06-11 Thread Ian Bicking
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 03:48, R. Olsth. wrote: Dear Ian, I've setup the DavKit for Webware 0.8. The DAVKitExamples/FileDAVServlet.py works well with the browser interface, however when I try to open the location with the 'Open as Web Folder' option in Internet Explorer on, then IE complaints

[Webware-discuss] Zope vs Webware (Not Really)

2003-06-11 Thread Chris Bruce
I truly believe that Python is probably the best web development language around. I have actually been paid to develop with Java, ASP, PHP, and Perl and none of them are the silver bullet, like python appears to be. But, I am now trying to find a great framework to use on all future apps done in

Re: [Webware-discuss] Zope vs Webware (Not Really)

2003-06-11 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Chris Bruce hat gesagt: // Chris Bruce wrote: I am getting ready to build a large webbased application. I am set on python (still wondering how to make installation easy) and am deciding between Zope and Webware. I have developed many Zope applications, but new to Webware. Why not

Re: [Webware-discuss] Zope vs Webware (Not Really)

2003-06-11 Thread Gary Perez
Hi, Chris. I muddle my way through both Zope and Webware almost daily. I'm neither a novice nor an expert with either. With mod_webkit, you get to take advantage of Apache's built-in functionality. If mod_ssl is installed/configured, then secure stuff dynamically generated through webkit is a

Re: [Webware-discuss] Zope vs Webware (Not Really)

2003-06-11 Thread Chris Bruce
Thanks for the info. If you have any additional suggestions or comments, please let me know. As far as security, is UserKit useable? Chris - Original Message - From: Chris Bruce To: Webware discuss Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 11:25 AM Subject: [Webware-discuss] Zope vs Webware

Re: [Webware-discuss] Class variables and thread safety

2003-06-11 Thread Travis Whitton
Concurrency issues can be difficult without a full context. But I think this will be a problem. Sorry for not providing enough information. Here are the relevant excerpts from my code: configuration.py: - from

Re: [Webware-discuss] Class variables and thread safety

2003-06-11 Thread Ian Bicking
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 17:06, Travis Whitton wrote: If you want to use database-level transactions over several requests, you're probably going to want to keep the connection (with its associated transaction) in the session or something. But I don't! I only want to use it for a single

Re: [Webware-discuss] Zope vs Webware (Not Really)

2003-06-11 Thread Ian Bicking
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 16:29, Chris Bruce wrote: As far as security, is UserKit useable? My experience, shared by a number of other people, is that UserKit doesn't help with the interesting problems (like security, authentication, etc), and isn't worth it for the conceptual overhead. I read the

Re: [Webware-discuss] Zope vs Webware (Not Really)

2003-06-11 Thread Roger Haase
--- Chris Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am getting ready to build a large webbased application. I am set on python (still wondering how to make installation easy) and am deciding between Zope and Webware. I have developed many Zope applications, but new to Webware. I am well aware