From a web paradigm far far away...
[ANNOUNCEMENT TEXT] Zope is a free, Open Source application server and portal toolkit used to build, deploy and manage dynamic, high-performance Web sites. As a true open source solution, Zope is available free of charge and comes with comprehensive source code and a powerful array of application development tools and utilities. Zope 2.0 measurably improves the scalability and collaborative features of the original Zope Web application platform. Some of the new capabilities released with Zope 2 are: * ZODB 3, the next generation of the Zope Object Database * Z Classes, a new mechanism for building Zope applications * WebDAV support * ZServer, the integration of Zope and Medusa Many other sundry significant items that were changed: * Look and feel improvements, * Tighter security, * Simpler creation of Python products. Unfortunately, there are a number of incompatabilities between Zope and Python 1.5.2 that have been reported but not yet fixed. Zope 2.0 alpha 2, which will be released the week of May 26, will fix most or all of these. Zope 2.0.0 alpha 1, featuring the next generation of the Zope Object Database, is now available at: http://www.zope.org/Download/Releases/Zope-2.0.0a1 Among other things, this page gives a roadmap for the release of Zope 2.0.0. An updated version of the Zope Object Database UML model is available at: http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Models/ZODB In keeping with Python tradition, Zope 2.0.0 alpha 1 is being released as most of the Digital Creations engineers leave for Linux Expo and will be away from email for several days. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Digital Creations | petrilli@digicool.com http://www.digicool.com