Dear Reinhold, zope3-dev is about the development *of* Zope 3 itself, not the development *with* Zope 3. This is a question for zope3-users, I'm therefore CCing zope3-users instead of zope3-dev.
> So, I would like to know the forms of communication between distributed > components or distributed components and clients. As far as I know, Zope > focusses on HTML communication, also allowing XML-RPC calls to > components. Zope 3 supports several network protocols, the most prominent being HTTP. Out of the box it supports different flavours of HTTP, such as * regular HTTP/WebDAV * Browser pages (mostly HTML, but could be other stuff, too) * XML-RPC * SOAP You can add support for other HTTP-based protocols easily these days using the <publisher /> ZCML directive. XML-RPC is covered in my book (http://worldcookery.com), including a simple Python and Java demo client that accesses data and calls methods in Zope remotely. > But is this still the only possiblity? If yes, how could > security be integrated in such communication? That all depends on your requirements. One of Zope's strongholds is a flexible and powerful security and authentication system. > And if yes, I mean is that > a disadvantage in comparision to J2EE where RMI enables communication to > server still like local calls. If no, what other kinds of communication > are possible? I'm not sure what you mean by "distributed components", but ZEO is definitely a very transparent way of having distributed clients have access to objects of a single remote source. Philipp _______________________________________________ Zope3-users mailing list Zope3-users@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope3-users