A few weeks back, Web Elite started work on Phabric, a project to bring Zope to Java via Jython. Since there has been a lot of discussion in the past couple of weeks on the jython-dev list about Zope related topics (ExtensionClass, Acquisition and Zope as a whole), we've decided to fully open the project now rather than telling interested people individually. Web Elite is committed to this technology. This open source Java software will bring many of the benefits to Java developers that Python developers have been enjoying already. The main phabric website is at http://www.phabric.org. If you're interested in phabric, we have started some mailing lists to get some discussion going. You can sign up for the lists at http://lists.webelite.com. If you're just interested in tracking the general progress of the project, subscribe to phabric-announce. For developers interested in working on phabric, we have set up a phabric-dev list to discuss the core phabric work. Current Status -------------- ExtensionClass and Acquisition are fairly complete. We're working on the other C modules (largely in python to begin with) right now. The next step after that will be to do profiling and move some of the code into better-optimized Java. The latest download information for phabric will always be at http://www.phabric.org/download. Currently, the only access to phabric is via CVS. Why phabric? ------------ We chose to call the project phabric because there will not be 100% compatibility between zope and phabric, and a new name will avoid confusion. "Phabric" was chosen because it's a framework that holds your web apps together. Metaphorically speaking, you can weave your objects into the phabric of the web... I am sending this message to jython-dev and zope-dev, but not crossposting to avoid discussions that are irrelevant to the other group. Hope to hear from you soon! Kevin Dangoor Web Elite