December 1999 - Zope-Announce

[ANNOUNCE] Digital Creations Chooses Mozilla For Next Generation Zope Management Zope Management
by Mike Pelletier 10 Dec '99

10 Dec '99

Digital Creations announced today that the next generation of its Zope application server will leverage browser technology from the Mozilla project. Zope is the leading Open Source application server, specializing in content management systems, portals, and custom solutions. Mozilla is a next-generation Web browser, developed as an Open Source project and delivering technology for AOL's Netscape products. "Zope is the premier example of a pure Internet architecture for application servers," says Paul Everitt, CEO of Digital Creations. "However, being competitive in the content management and portal management markets requires an upgrade to Zope's classic Web front end. With Mozilla we get an advanced environment for Web applications that enhances the Zope vision of a pure Internet architecture. It's a natural fit for these two Open Source leaders to work together." Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler for mozilla.org, said "Mozilla is a new, standards-based architecture for next-generation Web applications. This alliance with Zope is an innovative example of coupling this new browser seamlessly with a powerful server architecture. We are excited to welcome Digital Creations and the Zope community in this initiative." The goal of the Zope/Mozilla initiative is to deliver a next-generation management environment for Zope that retains an end-to-end Open Source solution for web applications. This initiative will spawn a number of Zope community projects led by Digital Creations and others. A roadmap, initial architecture documents, and a prototype will be unveiled at the Zope Track at the Eighth International Python Conference in January 2000. Additional information about the initiative will be maintained at: http://www.zope.org/Resources/Mozilla Digital Creations is the creator of Zope and the leader in Open Source web development. Zope is an Open Source application server for building high-performance, dynamic web sites. Zope runs on nearly all UNIX platforms as well as Windows NT, and can be used with popular web servers or its own built-in web server. Visit www.digicool.com for more information, and get Zope free at www.zope.org. Mozilla.org is the group founded by Netscape to be responsible for making Mozilla a successful open-source project; it exists to support the entire Mozilla community. Mozilla.org provides a central point of contact and community for those interested in using or improving the mozilla codebase. Contacts: Paul Everitt, paul(a)digicool.com Mitchell Baker, mitchell(a)mozilla.org

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Zope Weekly News
by Mike Pelletier 08 Dec '99

08 Dec '99

G'day, Zope Weekly News is a digest of some of the useful and interesting events which have occurred in the Zope universe. It is published each Wednesday evening. Any opinions contained in the Zope Weekly News are those of the chronicler exclusively. New Products * "faassen" released ZFormulator 0.1: "ZFormulator is a product that can assist with the creation of HTML forms, their validation and processing. The Zope user can construct forms from within the Zope management interface." "Neat feature: eats its own dogfood (ZFormulator is built with ZFormulator!)" http://www.zope.org/Members/faassen/ZFormulator * "vladap" released MySQL User Folder. It allows you to store user information in a MySQL database. http://www.zope.org/Members/vladap/mysqlUserFolder * "phd" has submitted an early development release of mod_pcgi2(0.0.1). Presumably, this moves the wafer-thin C stub PCGI employs into Apache's process, eliminating the so-called fork tax. http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/mod_pcgi2/mod_pcgi2_v0.0.1 Announcements * Digital Creations has partnered with Fast Engines to add support for their FastServ product. FastServ provides advanced load-balancing (even within a heterogenous server environment) and works with industry standard web servers. http://www.digicool.com/News/FastEngines * Digital Creations has announced that an early 2000 Zope release will include support for two open protocols heavily supported by Microsoft: the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol. http://www.digicool.com/News/integrate * Another press release from DC: Jon Udell will be delivering a keynote at the Zope Track of the 8th International Python Convention. http://www.digicool.com/News/Udell * "TWilson" announced a special interest group on the subject of Zope and educators. The group is still in it's formative period, so get involved now to help plan it's future. http://www.zope.org/Members/TWilson/Zope-edu * Tom Deprez <tom.deprez(a)uz.kuleuven.ac.be> reported on the state of the Zope Documentation Project. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-December/002524.html * Eduardo Fernandez Corrales <efernandez(a)sistelnet.es> has a Spanish Zope portal and mailing list. http://zope.sistelnet.es/ http://zope.sistelnet.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hispazope * Paul Everitt sent out a reminder that it's time to register for the Zope Track at the 8th International Python Conference. http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/015052.html Updates * Zope 2.1.0 final has been released! This release includes many bug fixes, speed improvements and new features. http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.0/ A log of everything that has changed is also available. http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.0/CHANGES.txt Zope.org items * Zope Resources is changing slightly. Zope Hosting Providers is being replaced with a more general page, Zope Solution Providers. http://www.zope.org/Resources * "Zen" submitted a pair of tips about Zope's little-known 'manage_debug' method, which can provide profiling information and information useful for debugging connection problems. http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/tips/profiling http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/tips/manage_debug * "tseaver" reported a LinuxPlanet review of Zope. Kevin Reichard (the reviewer) brings with him a fresh perspective as someone coming from outside the "Zope community". He gives Zope an overall 4/5 rating and raises a number of concerns, some valid, some perhaps less so. Kevin represents a demographic destined to become the majority of Zope users (namely, those who view Zope as a tool rather than as a way of life. ;-) ) and so his review deserves careful consideration. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/1319/1/ Notable Discussions * Rodrigo <rdeleonp(a)yahoo.com> posted a query about using Zope with SSL. The common solution is to use Zope with Apache, IIS or Netscape Server to provide a secure connection. David Kankiewicz <kankie(a)thegrid.net> cited an old post about a product which gives ZServer the ability to establish SSL connections! http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/015061.html http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/015063.html http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/1999-December/015065.html -- Mike Pelletier.

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Zope direction and 2.2 roadmap...
by Brian Lloyd 08 Dec '99

08 Dec '99

Hi all. Now that Zope 2.1.0 is out the door, we at DC want to let the community know our direction and the "roadmap" leading to 2.2. In a nutshell, our direction and focus will be on usability. Making it easier to get things done with Zope has been a recurring theme on the lists lately, and we will be working to make progress on this front. For 2.2, here is the short list of we will be working on: o Online Help System - Amos has been doing great work on a real honest-to-goodness online help system for Zope that will make its debut in 2.2. o Python Methods - work will be done to include Evan Simpson's Python Methods in the Zope core. This should help a lot in avoiding the headaches of convoluted DTML logic. o Site Objects - will make it easier to deploy "virtual sites" in the same Zope with far less effort than is required now. o The ability to associate ZClasses as "brains" for relational database data instead of having to write Python classes. o And of course, fixes for bugs and issues in the Collector. We are expecting to have these things available in at least a pre-release by the time of the Zope track at the Python Conference. There are other usability initiatives underway as well. Rob and Amos have been doing a _lot_ of work coming up with a much better and much more scalable approach to documentation that should have a big impact on the quality and breadth of documentation. Work will also continue on making Zope.org a better resource with things like ZTopics (Yahoo-style directory views). And there are some other projects percolating (which I can't talk about yet :) that will have a big impact on usability. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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mod_pcgi2 version 0.0.1
by Oleg Broytmann 07 Dec '99

07 Dec '99

Hello! I am announcing the first development version of mod_pcgi2 - Apache module for Zope/PCGI. The module is at version 0.0.1 - it is very early development release. It lacks some features and probably is buggy (though all my tests passed fine). http://www.zope.org/Members/phd/mod_pcgi2 http://sun.med.ru/~phd/Software/Zope/ I've tested it on Debian Linux and Sun Sparc Solaris. Here are my pages: http://sun.med.ru/pcgi/ http://sun.med.ru/pcgi/Random/ If you suspect there is a problem, try to view these pages by replacing /pcgi/ with /Zope/ - this will force Apache to use Zope.cgi. My home page (http://sun.med.ru/~phd/) loaded into Zope: via Zope.cgi: http://sun.med.ru/~zphd/ via mod_pcgi2: http://sun.med.ru/pcgi/phd02 Zope + PostgreSQL little test: via Zope.cgi: http://sun.med.ru/Zope/phd01 via mod_pcgi2: http://sun.med.ru/pcgi/phd01 On linux: via Zope.cgi: http://phd.russ.ru/Zope/ via mod_pcgi2: http://phd.russ.ru/pcgi/ Please visit (some of) these pages and report any error or success. I'd be very happy if any Apache guru comments on the mod_pcgi2 code. Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann Foundation for Effective Policies phd(a)phd.russ.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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Zope 2.1.0 Linux binary now fixed for RH 5.x users...
by Brian Lloyd 06 Dec '99

06 Dec '99

Hi all, For those of you who have reported strange problems with the Zope 2.1.0 binary release on your Linux systems, the Zope 2.1.0 binary release for Linux has been updated. The previous one was compiled with a backward-incompatible version of glibc on an RH 6 machine, which caused a problem for some users. The updated build has been verified to work on RH 5.x systems, and should work on 6.x as well (I'd appreciate it if a 6.x user out there could make a post to the list to verify this). The re-build is available from the usual place on Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.0/ Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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[ANNOUNCE] John Udell To Give Keynote At Zope Track
by Mike Pelletier 03 Dec '99

03 Dec '99

Jon Udell To Give Keynote At Zope Track Digital Creations will be hosting a Zope Track at the 8th International Python Conference. The Zope Track will feature a keynote speech by the former senior editor at Byte magazine, Jon Udell. He is also the author of several O'Reilly books and a frequent contributor to leading industry publications. Jon will be discussing reusable web content models. The Zope Track will also cover subjects of interest to Zope users and developers of all proficiencies, offer an opportunity to meet the folks at DC, and to put faces to the names seen in the Zope community. Attendees will come away with a free t-shirt, CD-ROM and bound copies of the Zope guides. Jon Udell will be speaking on Tuesday, January 25. The conference runs from the 24th to the 26th. To register, see the on-line registration form (link below). Links: Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com 8th International Python Conference http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/ Zope Track http://www.digicool.com/News/ZopeTrack Conference registration form http://www.python.org/workshops/2000-01/registration.html

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[ANNOUNCE] Zope 2.1.0 final released
by Mike Pelletier 03 Dec '99

03 Dec '99

Zope 2.1.0 final has been released. This release includes many bug fixes, performance and reliability improvements and a number of new features since 2.0.1, including the beginnings of internationalization support, FastCGI support and relevance ranking for ZCatalog. Zope 2.1.0 is available here: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.1.0/

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NOTICE about linux 2.1.0 binary, was: problems running 2.1.0 fin al al
by Brian Lloyd 03 Dec '99

03 Dec '99

> I have the same trouble trying to install the XMLDocument > product. My guess is > that somebody upgraded to a glibc2.1 system (e.g., RH 6.0) > and built the Linux > binaries (the .so files) there. We recently had to rebuild the binaries for the linux dist. (for all of them actually, to make sure that _localemodule was included by default). At the time, I didn't realize that the dev. machine had been "upgraded" to glibc2.1 :( The upshot is that the linux binary currently on the website is currently only usable for RH 6.0 users. If you _must_ upgrade before Monday and you are on 5.x, you will want to get the source distribution and build it yourself. Monday we will get the binaries for the linux binary dist. rebuilt on a 5.x machine and do some testing. Then I'll update the release on the site and we'll hopefully have a binary that's good for both 5.x and 6.x. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Zope and Microsoft Integrate Using Web Standards
by Mike Pelletier 03 Dec '99

03 Dec '99

Digital Creations announced today increased interoperability between its Open Source Zope application server and Microsoft platforms using open standards. An early 2000 Zope release will include support for two protocols heavily supported by Microsoft, the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol. More information is available at: http://www.digicool.com/News/integrate

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[ANNOUNCE] Digital Creations and Fast Engines Team For Scalable Web Application Servers Application Servers
by Mike Pelletier 03 Dec '99

03 Dec '99

Digital Creations, creator of Zope(TM) and the leader in Open Source web development, announced that it is partnering with Fast Engines, the leader in web server acceleration software, to provide commercial-grade scalability for the Zope web application server. The alliance will dramatically improve the ability of high-volume e-commerce sites to handle peak traffic flows. Because Fast Engines enables load balancing across a wide range of platforms, dynamic applications operating in a cross-platform server environment can function reliably, even at peak times with 'flash crowds'. More information is available at: http://www.digicool.com/News/FastEngines

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