On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:16:23PM -0800, Dean Matsueda wrote:
* what kind of web applications are you building and using with Zope?
Right now I'm up to my eyeballs in a kind of thorny content management system which is served at many virtual hosts with a different "skin" for each host. This is based on CMFDefault but keeps diverging further from it.
* which web server are you deploying Zope on?
Errr, zope *is* a web server (among other things). But it's most often deployed behind a proxy. We use Apache for that. We run several zope instances and ZEO, all on linux boxes.
* how active is the Zope user community?
Very. Several dozen messages on this list per day, several active community-driven sites (www.zopezen.org, www.zopelabs.com, and of course the member stuff on www.zope.org, etc ...), and a pretty helpful and interesting IRC channel (#zope on irc.openprojects.net). THat's not to mention the communities around more specific topics: the zope-cmf list, the #plone channel...
* how easy [or not] is it to build custom apps or extend the use of Zope with Python?
Both. :) Adding a Script (Python) or an External Method is trivial, and you can get a lot of mileage out of that. But if you need new classes, it's time for a python-based Zope Product, which raises the bar quite a bit, but it's very rewarding. The mxmEasyProduct stuff might be a help with getting new products started. And there are *tons* of products with source code you can look through...
* any comparisons to Tomcat? or other Java-based frameworks?
No. ;) -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com "Welcome to Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"