Ryan Sabir wrote: >> From what I understand its not just an application server, but a whole >> content management system and methodology.
Zope is an application server using python, it serves a persistent transactional object database. Zope is also cross-platform and scalable, and very easily customised, both via the filesystem and a web management interface. It's not a CMS, but a platform on which to build applications, with lots of ready made OO objects such as authentication, authorization, cataloging, database connectors etc all of which are easily customisable. It's very easy to extend this framework, and makes re-doing the same old code again a thing of the past. >> >> So is >> Cold Fusion && (Spectra || CMS300 || Shado) = ZOPE > >More like: >ColdFusion && (FarCry || Shado) => >Python && (ZOPE) => >PHP && (Nuke) Zope is better seen a base collection of python objects ready made to extend. It's definately not the PHPNuke of Python :) It's security mechanism is very finegrained and object based. see http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZDG/current/Security.stx for more detail ... nothing like PHP really >The biggest advantage you have with a CF based solution over ZOPE is CF >itself. This unfortunately doesn't explain much ;) >PS. ZOPE was a proprietry Python based CMS -- the company that owned it >basically made everything open source -- manages the underlying code >base and future development and is still the biggest services provider >for Zope solutions. An interesting business model. Nope zope isn't a CMS, you can build CMS's on it, Plone (http://plone.org) is an example of one. Zope is, not was, opensource, free to download and has an active community in Australia http://ozzope.org. check out : http://www.zope.com/ZopeClientList NASA, NATO, GE, Bank of America ... the list is quite impressive. I like it as I never have to do anything twice :) and can do really anything I want with it quickly as the security is handled across HTTP, WEBDAV, XML-RPC and FTP out of the box Dave --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
