[ZODB-Dev] what about using ZODB for non-python oriented application
persistence
Dieter Maurer
dieter@handshake.de
Thu, 20 Mar 2003 21:22:14 +0100
Tim Hoffman wrote at 2003-3-20 21:58 +0800:
> I am casting around for a object persistence framework
> which has all of the facilities that zope has (i.e.
> ZEO, small footprint, cross platform, multiple storage mechanisms
> a level of concurrency etc.... could be used for a single
> user app, or scale up for moderate multiuser with low write volume
> with ZEO)
>
> the target environment is virtually all C++ and Delphi.
> And there is no python yet.
>
> and I haven't found anything that really rivals ZODB.
>
> So do you think it would be feasible to introduce python into
> such an application only (at least in the first instance ;-)
> to achieve object persistence. Obviously it would require
> some interesting wrapping of objects etc...
>
> Is it something that anyone would even consider ?
This seems a bit indirect.
You serialize C++ objects in Python and then store them
in ZODB.
You may find "Boost.Python" helpful. It could handle
the wrapping part transparently (with a little help from you).
Dieter