-----Original Message----- From: Cory L Hubert [mailto:clhubert@netzero.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 3:13 PM To: zope-dev@zope.org Subject: [Zope-dev] Python & XML what about Java
Hey. I am new to Zope. I just tripped over it the other day and I am extremly interested. The only thing I am concerned about is Zope's XML support. A lot of XML projects I am getting involved in require Java and Java Servlets (for obvious reasons). Zope seems to take the python route to supporting XML. Does Zope's have any Java support? If not, does it have plans to support Java/XML.
I think Zope would make an excellent java servlet platform. You'd just have to write the plumbing to connection the Zope object model to Java. Note that this is a very clean mapping, just look at JPython. The Apache folks have been doing some good development along these lines, perhaps much of their effort can be integrated into a plug-in for Zope. Also, I don't think there is way that much more XML functionality in Java than in Python. Python takes a route where you are given a small set of very powerful tools, and then a super clean fast-development scripting language (python) to glue them together. I would think that developing XML apps in Python takes as much time as doing them in Java, even with all the gobs and gobs of Java tools that exist at the moment. -Michel
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