i dont know if this is the right forum for raising this kind of ideas - forgive me if its not. I was thinking about an event based model for the application servers like zope which would make life easier for the programmers. Just like the db triggers, mouse events etc....it would be great if a web server would include triggers internally like - page closed, page opened, page validation, object start, object destroy, and so on.... just thinking if anyone else has done anything like this - is this even a valid model for the web model.

I feel this would greatly simplify programming because if the programmers had to just trap the events and do the relevant coding for that then there could truly be a Rapid Web development Tools and Rapid prototyping etc which would also bring greater speed to the development cycle itself overall on the web.

Any ideas ? What do you guys say ? Can Zope be extended this way by implementing a layer within zope that raises these triggers and letting the programmers trap these events ? Any plans ?