Yes, it's definitely a very interesting product and goes a long way toward what I was thinking about. It's a step toward what could be a killer app for zope I think - most web developers would kill for an open source through the web RAD tool. I still think it's worth peeking at what I've done because it generates ZSQL code as well as the DTML skeleton for a typical application. It would be easy to integrate I imagine with metapublisher. In my experience, the ZODB is great for development and testing, but there comes a point with big apps where you think seriously about RDBMS storage. Jason Spisak wrote:
Dr. Ross Lazarus writes:
Have you guys seen MetaPublisher?!
http://hive.beehive.de/Beehive/www.beehive.de/Zope/MetaPublisher/
A very strong offering in this direction.
I think the general idea of automating html generation for data entry web forms is a very good one, but IMHO it's heroic to even think about doing this sort of stuff in dtml!! (This discussion probably should be moved to zope-dev?)
I've got something which generates useful DTML and ZSQL code automagically from ZClass BASIC propertysheet contents and so can be used to do the grunt work for making zclass add and edit methods. It generates ZSQL code which is only tested for the sybaseda but would be relatively easy to tweak for other DA's
It uses a single python external method - have a look at http://www.zope.org/Members/rossl/ZClassExtender for an example of what's possible...feel free to extend it?!!
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