Mark Foley wrote: > What is Zope? Where can I find it? > Thanks, > Mark Zope is an extremely interesting application server written in Python. The main features that interest me are: * Very high level programming / web doc management environment. Many features that would have to be coded on top of servlets are available out of the box. * Based on an OODB that supports transactions and other interesting features. * Allows whole websites to be totally managed through a browser. * Allows all UI coding to be done through a browser. * Based on a totally OO model: Everything is an object, or a method on an object. All objects (scripts, html, images) are stored in the OODB. * Supports many protocols for access and management: HTTP, FTP, WEBDAV, XMLRPC... * Relatively easy to access other resources like servlets. * Open source, with a very active user community. There are even more advantages, but anyhow... I got into it because I needed a db solution for a bunch of servlets. I was also nearly finished with a servlet framework that gives me model-view separation via WebMacro, and authentication, etc. However, now I see that Zope has all of this built-in, and I can concentrate on the task at hand. Or at least, that's the idea. I'm just getting started, and in the process of converting a partly-dynamic servlet-driven website to Zope for kicks. ( http://www.rule-of-eight.com/ ) Zope is at: http://www.zope.org/ - Robb ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
