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Zope Creator (Jim Fulton) Speaks To Zopera.org

Posted by timothy on from the why-and-how dept.

Olivier DECKMYN writes: "Zopera team, representing the community of french speaking Zope users have made a community Interview of Jim Fulton, the brain behind Zope. Jim explains origins and future of Zope, business of Zope Corp., and delivers informations about the fantastic upcoming Zope 3... Zope is a revolutionnary Open-Source internet application server, written in Python."

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  1. Phabric = Zope on Java by ryarger · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As a *huge* fan of Zope, I want to make sure everyone also knows about the Phabric project. www.phabric.org. This is an attempt to get Zope running without modification using Jython, which is a Java implementation of Jython.

    The project is close to being runnable, and may even be usable with some work. So if you're interested, check it out!

  2. Zope is cool... by costas · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... but if you are a control freak (like myself), Zope can be too constraining. On the other hand, Webware for Python provides a clean, very OOPy, servlet server written entirely in Python. It's not necessarily better than Zope (Zope is by far more mature) but it does offer you more control over your app.

  3. I might give Zope a try by brenfern · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I've been hearing a lot of good things about Zope and am considering giving it a try; I would be interested to hear some real-life case studies discussing any potential pitfalls with using Zope. I usually develop dynamic sites using servlets/JSP/Mysql as I generally like the flexibility I get, but this time I need to set up a prototype quickly (2-3 days) and pass on the development wholly to somebody who has only modest web development experience. Would Zope be useful in this situation, or would we hit brick walls too soon? The initial requirements are:

    • Bulletin boards with searching and querying
    • Dynamic news pages
    • User-definable home pages

    Later on we would require e-commerce and so on. Any real-life developer experiences would be useful to hear of; I have had a look at a few sites that use Zope and they seem ok.
    1. Re:I might give Zope a try by cow+ninja · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Bulletin boards with searching and querying
      Dynamic news pages
      User-definable home pages
      Don't only look at Zope but some of the addons. Squishdot may handle the Bulletin board and news pages. Most of your work may already be done.

      I developed a helpdesk call logger and resources page in a day using Zope.