At 01:13 AM 9/24/99 +1000, Darran Edmundson wrote:

We need to add an academic publications database to our budding Zope site. A couple of newbie questions:

1) Is creating a "Publication" ZClass and then using ZCatalog a viable option?

Are Publications relatively static? If so, ZCatalog is an excellent choice. (By relatively static, meaning you don't usually go out and change hundreds of Publication objects every day).

2) Is the GadFly Product okay for a smallish 1000-2000 record database? The Add page makes a comment about Gadfly operations being done in memory - does this mean that the database is not persisent in the Zope DB?

Gadfly has its own persistent data format that is stored seperately from the ZODB.