Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2007-4-19 07:52 +0200:
... ZClasses surely was an easy way to create CRUD applications in Zope 2. However, apart from many technical difficulties that are ZClasses, I personally find that through-the-web (TTW) development is actually hurting Zope and the people who use it, rather than help.
As so often, I have quite different opinions. In your (stripped away) example, I saw lots of magic (e.g. "grok.context", "grok.name", "@grok.action"). "ZClasses", too, have their magic. But, there, the magic is supported by a graphical UI which helps considerably... For me (several years back), Zope's TTW capabilities have been a major reason why I got interested in Zope. Had I then seen the nasty ZCML files so much liked in Zope 3, I would probably have turned away very rapidly.
.... Is this so much harder than ZClasses? I believe no
As someone who used ZClasses intensively, I believe "yes". -- Dieter