I'm just curious, with Twisted in place, how much other work would have to be done to run Zope in a Java application server? Just hypothetical. Would the persistency and pickling stuff work in Jython?
Regards, -- Bjorn > -----Original Message----- > From: Itamar Shtull-Trauring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 18:11 > Posted To: Zope Developer > Conversation: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa > with Twisted > Subject: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted > > > Actually, this brings up this idea I had - Zope should > replace medusa with > Twisted. Why, you ask? > > 1) Twisted separates transport from protocols, and the event > loop it uses is > extendable and generic. That means: > > - It can run on Jython (using threads, someday with > java.nio), and it can > be integrated with the Tk and GTK event loops. > > - Your protocol doesn't have to worry about the transport > - Twisted > supports SSL, TCP and unix domain sockets right now, without > having to make > any change to the protocols. > > 2) Twisted is designed to run multiple servers and protocols > at the same > time, and these can be changed at runtime. It already > includes pure python > support for HTTP, FTP, LDAP, SMTP, POP3, DNS, telnet, AIM > TOC, and IRC, all > integrated with the main event loop (all have server support > except DNS and > LDAP). Adding new protocols to Zope is not easy, at the moment. > > 3) Twisted is being actively developed and extended. medusa less so. > > 4) Good integration with threads - while event based, twisted > has a very > nice model for dealing with threaded apps. > > 5) Twisted has Perspective Broker, an async.ready > remote-object protocol > that supports caching, object migration, and remote messaging, with > integrated authentication and authorization. And it > ideologically meshes > with the "object publisher" notion in Zope. No, really :) > > > Twisted already includes a high-level web framework, but Zope > probably would > not use it, and instead build its own on top of twisted's > low-level http > support. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** > (Related lists - > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) > _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
