[Zope] Use of Zope

[Ben Avery]

ditto :)

I work for a web-based charity in the UK, YouthNet, who have been chosen 
to develop an 'e-volunteering' system for a government organisation, 
Business In The Community, to allow companies and their employees to do 
volunteering work opportunities.
I am using Zope as an application server to build the website the 
employees use, and to communicate with XML-RPC to client applications 
(written in VB, yuck ;) in the voluntary bureaux, who provide the 
opportunity details.

I chose Zope, as I am (was) a Perl developer, but couldn't find a 
suitable system in Perl, after evaluating a few, and thought Zope looked 
like it could do everything I needed (session management, user 
authentication and validation, work as an XML application server as well 
as a dynamic content web server), and would let me develop the system 
quickly.

There have been problems so far: it has taken a while to get the hang of 
Zope, the large number of alternative Products available, the sometimes 
poor documentation and the lack of a really good book covering 
everything I need.

But on the positive side, the ZMI is great, it is a nice development 
model, cleanly separates logic, database and presentation methods, and 
has a fantastic helpful community mailing list.

We're considering moving all our Perl CGI stuff to Zope, but I'm 
reluctant before I can see a clearer idea of where it is going and if it 
will be around in the future. Zope 3 looks promising, to cut out a lot 
of clutter and make things simpler. Does anyone know when it will be 
released?

Ben Avery
YouthNet UK


p.t. wrote:

> At 11:20 29/07/2002 -0400, Jim Kutter wrote:
>
>> I was curious to see what everyone is using zope for. I would love to 
>> take a quick survey and see who is using Zope and why?
>
>
> I did notice this thread only today, so my contribution is a bit late.
> Anyway, I find this kind of proposal interesting but difficult to 
> substain: in fact, only few contribution arrived up to now.
>
> We (me and others) decided to choose Zope because of its interesting 
> approach as an application server, and we are trying to use it as a 
> "wrapper" for others already existing WEB application to get an ASP 
> service.
>
> We are using Zope since realease 2.3, but only now (2.5) things are 
> getting in the direction we where hoping. However, we have still some 
> problems, specially connected to the scarcely documented features we 
> are "discovering" along the way.
>
>         p.t.
>
>
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