[Zope-dev] Python & XML what about Java

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cory L Hubert [mailto:clhubert@netzero.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 3:13 PM
> To: zope-dev@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope-dev] Python & XML what about Java
> 
> 
> 
> 	Hey.  I am new to Zope.  I just tripped over it the 
> other day and I am
> extremly interested.   The only thing I am concerned about is 
> Zope's XML
> support.  A lot of XML projects I am getting involved in 
> require Java and
> Java Servlets (for obvious reasons).  Zope seems to take the 
> python route to
> supporting XML.
> 	Does Zope's have any Java support?  If not, does it 
> have plans to support
> Java/XML.
> 

I think Zope would make an excellent java servlet platform.  You'd just
have to write the plumbing to connection the Zope object model to Java.
Note that this is a very clean mapping, just look at JPython.  The
Apache folks have been doing some good development along these lines,
perhaps much of their effort can be integrated into a plug-in for Zope.

Also, I don't think there is way that much more XML functionality in
Java than in Python.  Python takes a route where you are given a small
set of very powerful tools, and then a super clean fast-development
scripting language (python) to glue them together.  I would think that
developing XML apps in Python takes as much time as doing them in Java,
even with all the gobs and gobs of Java tools that exist at the moment.

-Michel

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