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Neil.Smith@aucs-europe.com wrote I have started to read about Zope, and am in the process of setting up a server to try it out. From what I have read so far, it seems mainly targeted at displaying dynamic content. Can it also be used to generate web apps for maintaining database content? If so, can anyone recommend a site where there is a demo or tutorial or any other good information relevant to this. If it isn't suitable, can anyone recommend any other good tools (either opensource or commercial).

Zope is _outstanding_ for maintaining database content. I'm mid-way through building a quite large and complex database application (a customer database) which uses Zope as the frontend, and an SQL database or two as the backend. It's not something that I can show outside, unfortunately, but it makes heavy use of Zope's SQL interfacing abilities... Anthony (ob-zope-dev: oracle's SQL features a neat feature allowing you to automatically traverse parent/child object trees - this allows you to do some incredibly cool stuff. look for select... connect by... in the docs.)