Re: Zope?

[Jason Cater]

Hi Malek, 

This is certainly a valid question. Several of the core developers use Zope as 
web/portal servers at their places of work. GNUe is even switching to a Zope 
backend for our website. 

While it's true that Zope is an application server, it is our opinion that Zope 
is a specialized, targeted web application server -- it's targeted at serving 
web applications / content. Even their site says this: 

    "Zope is a leading open source application server, 
     specializing in content management, portals, and 
     custom applications."

However, I could be way off base... sometimes free/open source projects are 
more general-purpose than they at first comes across. In any case, our tools 
are fairly modular in nature, so if someone wanted to use Zope as a backend, 
our tools should support it. 

I hope this was somewhat helpful. 


Jason Cater
GNU Enterprise
http://www.gnue.org/


On Fri, 17 May 2002 11:23:28 +0200
"Malek Hadj-Ali" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have a (maybe stupid) question, why aren't you guys using Zope as an
> application server?
> It has a lot of features that could be reused (ZCatalog, ZSQLCatalog, ...),
> it's written in python, it has a big community of developper, and so on...
> 
> Just curious
> 
> 
> Malek
> 
> PS: please keep in mind I'm not a developper, so I don't understand
> immediately if there is some background incompatibility.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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