[Zope-CMF] CMF and Z39.50 protocol

[Norman Khine]

Hello Michael,
What I meant was by integrating MySQL (or any db for that fact)is to use CMF
and zope as the fron end window for users to build their data and this in
turn to be stored within MySQL, which will then be made available to Z39.50
ZAP.  A bit like add a News Item, this can then be stored and extracted via
the Z39.50 protocol and therefore made available to a larger array of
"portals"

Isn't;^) that the idea behind the Z39.50 protocol?! I think if we could
search content from CMF from an nth number of portals and list nth number of
entries provided from different type of portals ie swishdot, squishdot and
slashdot will be pretty cool. And even cooler is the fact that it can
provide this in parallel, would you agree?

I must appologise, being new to programming and development, I sometimes
find myself I want to learn to teleport my self before I've learned to fly
;^)

Any way I set up Z39.50 on a FreeBSD4.2 quite easily, I was supprised myself
it went so smoothly (I must be getting good ha ha ha ), ZAP as the search
interface and the YAZ client for entering the data, I will put some records
and see if my ZAP finds them!!!!???. I also saw a post somewhere where it
showed a way of storing the data into a MySQL table, but I lost the link,
Ugh ugh... I am sure I remmember one day, in the mean time do you think
firstly I am doing this in the correct manner.

Thanks for your thoughts

Regards

Norman

PS appologies to Dieter, I did not realise my settings are in MIME.

-----Original Message-----
From: zope-cmf-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-cmf-admin@zope.org]On Behalf
Of Michael R. Bernstein
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 5:50 PM
To: Norman Khine
Cc: Zope-Cmf
Subject: Re: [Zope-CMF] CMF and Z39.50 protocol


Norman Khine wrote:
>
> This is very interesting, there is not a lot of movement from CMF on this
> subject, is there a particular reason for this, apart from the obvious
once,
> time.

Well, developers tend to do work that gets them the biggest
result for a given anount of work. Z39.50 is not a very
popular protocol, compared with, say, HTTP. Therefore there
is less incentive to work on it. In contrast, XML-RPC, which
uses HTTP as it's transport layer, is very popular, so more
work is being done on it.

There are, however, a lot of interesting data resources that
are only accessible through a Z39.50 interface, so I expect
that sooner or later this work will get done by someone.

> I'll try this evening to set up the the server for FreeBSD and then link
> this to MySQL from which maybe one can write a client for zope?!?

Umm, I'm not sure what you mean here. Zope can integrate
with a relational DB such as MySQL rather easily, but how
are you going to write a Z39.50 client from MySQL? Or were
you referring to the Zope/MySQL combination?


Cheers,

Michael Bernstein.

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