[ZDP] Zbook chapter on Zope objects

[Tom Deprez]

At 19:49 30/05/2000 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Tom,
>
>Thinking further, I finally changed my mind. The 'Zen, Architecture and
>Power of Zope' part of the book should present a high level view of Zope so
>we should not talk about Zope objects internals there.
>
>But I propose a re-work on your following drafts and if people have
>comments/additions. See below.
>
>*Zen, Architecture and Power of Zope / Object Publishing*
>(Starting from Tom's existing draft with some changes)
>
>Zope is an Object Publishing environment.
>In most web development platforms, a web application consists of the
>integration of static HTML pages and CGI scripts. In Zope, the web
>application is built with objects supporting scripting, management, and a
>fine-grained powerfull security protocol . These objects have content and
>behavior, and can interract with each other using various defined protocols.
>A Zope object is dynamic, meaning that its behavior and content depend on
>the context in which it is placed. In addition, Zope provides a simple
>mechanism for allowing the hierarchy of an object to be traversed through a
>URL. As an example, instead of serving a page from a database by means of a
>URL containing a query such as "?sid=name&this=that", Zope permits a URL
>like "base/name/this/render.htm" or even "base/name/this/", with no visible
>query, to serve results from a database. Thus database access can be made
>wholly transparent to the end user, and your data can become an integral
>part of your web pages.
>
>
>*Zen, Architecture and Power of Zope / Core Zope Objects*
>(Changing the title from 'Zen of Objects')
>
>[I have nothing ready for this part, but I would also start from your draft.
>BTW, what are the core Zope objects: DTML document, DTML method, Folder ?
>Are there others ? images, ...]

When I started on this chapter, I thought on all standard available objects.

Tom.