[Zope] Zope and J2EE

[Joel Burton]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 Gregory_Propf-Contractor@stricom.army.mil wrote:

> I have been reading about Jython and would like to know if anyone is
> considering porting Zope to J2EE as Jython would seem to allow this through
> compiling Python source down to Java beans,servlets and such.  Anyone know
> what the technical issues are?  What are people's thoughts about this idea?
> Background, my company is making a big J2EE push but we are also in
> desperate need of a good content management system.  Zope seems the perfect
> thing but I am being told off because "it's not Java". - Greg

Aah, Enterprise IT. :-)

Zope is about so much more than the CMF, though: would one code JZope
objects in Java? This would seem to get us right back to the problems Java
has as a web platform--it's *not* an easy language for mid-level webpeople
often. If one coded it in Python still, then one work basically be just
converting all this Python to Java to run on your server, and you'd pay a
speed penalty w/o new features to speak of.

Of course, one could take the zen of zope and port it to Java: TTW
editing, products, etc. I'm sure, in fact, many companies are scrambling
to create way of slinging beans around with web interfaces, but I don't
know of any Open Sourc efforts.

Now, could Zope still be Zope, but call Java objects? That would seem a
fascinating concept, and well beyond my cluefulness...


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Joel Burton   <jburton@scw.org>
Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington