[Zope] Future of Zope
Terrel Shumway
tshumway@ics.uci.edu
Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:50:04 -0700
Ian Clarke wrote:
> Doesn't Java (as a pretty much universally accepted client side
> language) figure in this anywhere?
<flamebait type="language holy war">
I don't know of any language that is "universally accepted". Use
whatever language *you* want to use. For Zope, Python might
be a better fit. Or maybe even JPython.
</flamebait>
> Would it really be that difficult to
> create a Java conduit to the Zope database?
The conduit already exists. XML-RPC lets you call any method in the Zope API
-- from ANY language that supports XML-RPC.
> It could support the
> various permissions based access and stuff, and then support plugins for
> editing the different types of object. In this manner, say, the makers
> of SquishDot could create a custom SquishDot editor plugin, and such
> like.
Creating this UI (plugins, etc.) is vastly more complex than creating
a communication channel.
IMO, Mozilla/XUL would be easier for product developers to support: 1) it is
semantically closer to the HTML interface that they must already create,
and 2) it can share a lot with the default HTML interface.