ditto :) I work for a web-based charity in the UK, YouthNet, who have been chosen to develop an 'e-volunteering' system for a government organisation, Business In The Community, to allow companies and their employees to do volunteering work opportunities. I am using Zope as an application server to build the website the employees use, and to communicate with XML-RPC to client applications (written in VB, yuck ;) in the voluntary bureaux, who provide the opportunity details. I chose Zope, as I am (was) a Perl developer, but couldn't find a suitable system in Perl, after evaluating a few, and thought Zope looked like it could do everything I needed (session management, user authentication and validation, work as an XML application server as well as a dynamic content web server), and would let me develop the system quickly. There have been problems so far: it has taken a while to get the hang of Zope, the large number of alternative Products available, the sometimes poor documentation and the lack of a really good book covering everything I need. But on the positive side, the ZMI is great, it is a nice development model, cleanly separates logic, database and presentation methods, and has a fantastic helpful community mailing list. We're considering moving all our Perl CGI stuff to Zope, but I'm reluctant before I can see a clearer idea of where it is going and if it will be around in the future. Zope 3 looks promising, to cut out a lot of clutter and make things simpler. Does anyone know when it will be released? Ben Avery YouthNet UK p.t. wrote:
At 11:20 29/07/2002 -0400, Jim Kutter wrote:
I was curious to see what everyone is using zope for. I would love to take a quick survey and see who is using Zope and why?
I did notice this thread only today, so my contribution is a bit late. Anyway, I find this kind of proposal interesting but difficult to substain: in fact, only few contribution arrived up to now.
We (me and others) decided to choose Zope because of its interesting approach as an application server, and we are trying to use it as a "wrapper" for others already existing WEB application to get an ASP service.
We are using Zope since realease 2.3, but only now (2.5) things are getting in the direction we where hoping. However, we have still some problems, specially connected to the scarcely documented features we are "discovering" along the way.
p.t.
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