[Zope-CMF] CMF and Z39.50 protocol

Michael R. Bernstein webmaven@lvcm.com
Tue, 03 Apr 2001 10:46:40 -0700


Norman Khine wrote:
> 
> Hello Michael,
> What I meant was by integrating MySQL (or any db for that fact)is to use CMF
> and zope as the fron end window for users to build their data and this in
> turn to be stored within MySQL, which will then be made available to Z39.50
> ZAP.  A bit like add a News Item, this can then be stored and extracted via
> the Z39.50 protocol and therefore made available to a larger array of
> "portals"
> 
> Isn't;^) that the idea behind the Z39.50 protocol?! I think if we could
> search content from CMF from an nth number of portals and list nth number of
> entries provided from different type of portals ie swishdot, squishdot and
> slashdot will be pretty cool. And even cooler is the fact that it can
> provide this in parallel, would you agree?

This would be cool, but also a bit of a hack. Is the only
reason that you're storing the data in MySQL to expose it
via Z39.50? If so, it would be cooler to expose the ZODB
directly instead.

Cheers,

Michael Bernstein.

P.S. Perhaps you should write up a fishbowl proposal at
http://dev.zope.org