Hi Adam, thanks for your reply and pointers. Very informative! To move into enterprise market, I think a lot of effort is required to fight the 'J2EE hype'. Most of the companies now would like to hear 'J2EE-compliant' solutions being used by the vendor. They would like an 'open standard' that their future purchases can work with. A non-j2ee solutions provider would need to convince them otherwise (e.g. thru cost-benefit analysis) Another requirement would be to provide Single Sign-on portal feature to multiple applications, including external apps in other platform (Java, Perl, etc). There will be a need for APIs in the solution to allows external apps to call and authenticate with. Is this currently available in zope? --- Adam Manock <abmanock@earthlink.net> wrote:
At 04:04 AM 7/23/02, Fires Star wrote:
Hi, I am thinking of starting my own company providing web solutions - portal, Content Management, etc... Target market would be SME and enterprise that are cost-concious.
In this over-crowded market, every other company seems to be able to offer anything under the sun. And a lot are choosing J2EE over here in South East Asia.
To differentiate, I have to select a platform/solution that offers the competitive advantage such as rapid prototyping, fast development, flexibility to cater for changes, and cost-effective. All these which are lacking from my experience with the J2EE vendors so far... Which lead me to Zope - will it be able to provide these features?
I am interested in Zope and will start to try it out soon. I'm impressed by the built-in GUI management interface. Can it fulfil the following enterprise demand too? - High-Availability and Load Balancing (ZEO?)
Yes. see http://www.zope.org/About for an example :-)
- Support for creating user groups by functions, and assigning ACL, FAL (Feature Access List) to users
Zope's native support save you a LOT of coding time here.
see
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZopeBook/Security.stx
- Integration of User Accounts authentication with NT Domain/LDAP/Netware etc.
Also see:
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZopeBook/Security.stx
and: http://www.zope.org/Products/user_management
- Creating Workflows based on business logic
See: http://www.zope.com/Demos/cm3 for a demo (quicktime or flash)
- Report generation tools
??
Dynamic SQL + presentation templates has given me all the reports I'll ever need :-)
Regards, Firestar
Two other notes:
The Zope community is awesome, and generally very helpful. :-)
I've seen experienced Java developers working as Zope newbies complete projects 5-10 times faster using Zope. Of course they are still Java geeks, and want to use Java for their next project... Oh well...
Adam
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