--On 17 October 2002 23:08 +0200 Fernando Martins <fmartins@hetnet.nl> wrote:
Hi,
I've been looking for information regarding Lotus Notes and Zope. I've found too little in the zope web site (one testimonial saying that Notes sucks but no explanation and the Beehive conversion from Notes to Zope, but no details).
I tried searching on Yahoo groups simply by looking by Lotus but, weird, I get several messages but they don't contain the lotus word!!
I'm not familiar with neither (I've seen a demo on Notes Designer and I've done the zope tutorial) and probably I'll have to go to Lotus Notes for policy reasons, unless I find examples of what can I do with Zope but not with Lotus Notes/Domino.
People with Notes & Zope expertise include NIP: <http://www.nipltd.com>
I'm also looking for the possibility to connect to Lotus Notes databases (import/export).
Finally, Lotus Designer provides a Visual development environment. From what I've read, Zope seems to be at disadvantage here, ie, to create a database oriented application I've to code DTML/ZPT by hand. I understand I can use an HTML designer and then hand-code the ZPT part. Something better than this, or have I overlooked something. Anything RAD-like for zope?
I'm not sure if they're "RAD-like" or more of a "quick leg up", but there are products like <http://www.zope.org/Members/zwork/Znolk_SQL_Wizard> and <http://www.zope.org/Members/adustman/Products/SQLBlender> which quickly produce bare bones code which you can then make pretty. Paul -- The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK E-mail: paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/