[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] Using Zope with CORBA (new user question)

[Ross J. Reedstrom]

Jeffrey P Shell wrote:
> 
Crossing over from the Zope mailing list to zope-dev:

> >>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Everitt <Paul@digicool.com> writes:
> >
> > Would it be worthwhile to start looking at and hacking ZServer?
> 
> Yes.  ZServer really restores Zope's original intent from the Bobo days:
> publishing objects through a variety of protocols.  I think ILU support was
> once attempted back in those days.  However, a Bobo app at that time could
> only have one publishing mechanism (ie, CGI, PCGI, FastCGI, ILU, etc...).
> ZServer allows for multiple publishing mechanisms in the same application,
> allowing access to the objects through the web, through FTP, or through any
> other protocol developed for ZServer/Medusa.
> 

Hmm, I've been musing a bit about a zopefs module for linux. I couldn't
code it, but I'm the Advisor for the (newly formed) Rice Linux Users
Group, and some of those kids are very bright... Would Zserver be the
place to start looking to hack something like that together? Or perhaps
the ZClient thing I've seen mentioned...

There was once something called userfs under linux, that allowed
essentially arbitrary implementations of file system drivers in user
space. One example that came with it was an ftpfs, so that, combined
with Zserver's ftp support, gets us there. However, a cleaner
implementation not involving FTP would be nice.  Only problem - as far
as I remember, userfs hasn't been updated since linux kernel 1.0
something (I  think 1.2 broke it)

Ross, (wanting to use all those crazy unix commands, like
find/awk/sed/grep on his bobobase!)

-- 
Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm@rice.edu> 
NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
Computer and Information Technology Institute
Rice University, 6100 S. Main St.,  Houston, TX 77005