On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 Gregory_Propf-Contractor@stricom.army.mil wrote:

I have been reading about Jython and would like to know if anyone is considering porting Zope to J2EE as Jython would seem to allow this through compiling Python source down to Java beans,servlets and such. Anyone know what the technical issues are? What are people's thoughts about this idea? Background, my company is making a big J2EE push but we are also in desperate need of a good content management system. Zope seems the perfect thing but I am being told off because "it's not Java". - Greg

Aah, Enterprise IT. :-) Zope is about so much more than the CMF, though: would one code JZope objects in Java? This would seem to get us right back to the problems Java has as a web platform--it's *not* an easy language for mid-level webpeople often. If one coded it in Python still, then one work basically be just converting all this Python to Java to run on your server, and you'd pay a speed penalty w/o new features to speak of. Of course, one could take the zen of zope and port it to Java: TTW editing, products, etc. I'm sure, in fact, many companies are scrambling to create way of slinging beans around with web interfaces, but I don't know of any Open Sourc efforts. Now, could Zope still be Zope, but call Java objects? That would seem a fascinating concept, and well beyond my cluefulness... -- Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org> Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington