That's what I started out to use on a couple of projects but I had several people on this list warn me that ZClasses are not very robust, are quite difficult to use and perhaps even buggy. I was warned not to use them except for fairly toy-sized apps. Was that too harsh a judgement?
They're fine for things like this, I think. I would personally use a Python product, but that is a decision based on my own purely subjective point of view.
Perhaps it's just that my expectations of Zope were too grandiose. And now I've spent so much time trying to master it that I hate to start learning something else. But as helpful as this list can be, sometimes I think maybe I'm just in over my head.
Rome wasn't built in a day. ;-) All I can do is encourage you to stick it out. I think you should probably describe your actual nuts-and-bolts problems a little better to the list so folks can help. It's difficult to provide any constructive feedback on the problems as you've explained them so far. HTH, -- Chris McDonough Zope Corporation http://www.zope.org http://www.zope.com "Killing hundreds of birds with thousands of stones"