[Zope] Client-side Zope

[Chris Withers]

Hmmm....

Very interesting, I agree that installing Zope on Win* was very easy. The
problem I have is how to Sync stuff between my local Zope at home (no net
connection) and the 'real' Zope at work.

I currently do an export to a ZIP disk, and then an import back into the other
Zope from the disk. This makes a lot of things possible but only in very limited
circumstances:

You have to move *all* of Zope, or objects don't re-import back into the correct
place. Also, if an object changes on the 'real' Zope changes while I'm at home
and I import when I get back, the changes are lost as my import overwrites
whatever is there...not pretty.

Also, I can't do this trick with things like Squishdot postings, which is a
shame...

What would be nice is something like Lotus Notes replication when you import a
.zexp file; you get a replication conflict if both objects have changed, which
you can then sort out.

I'm not looking for the full-blown ZEO distributed object store, just a way to
periodically sync a set of selected objects (slightly more complex in the
squishdot case...) by exporting from one and re-importing (non-destructively)
into another.

Any ideas?

Chris



Jerry Spicklemire wrote:
> 
> This concept was kicked off by a specific need that led to discussions
> of polling, XML-RPC, Java RMI, JavaScript, and others that I can't recall.
> But, an unrelated need brought it home last night. The ZSchool project
> will at some point involve lot's of folks who won't be online constantly*,
> and suddenly Client Side Zope starts to look interesting.
> 
> Keep in mind, it's Zope! For those of you who have sworn off all things
> Microsoft and have grown accustomed to the "joys" of compiling and
> tweaking Zope / Apache / etc. on all varieties of *n*x, you may not
> realize that getting Zope running on Windows takes about five minutes.
> Thats five minutes for a newbie. It's just a Windows "Install".
> 
> Now, if anyone mentioned Client Side Oracle Application Server, or Client
> Side Lotus Notes, we'd know they'd lost it. But Zope is actually small and
> nonintrusive enough to pull this off. Think about a world full of Zopelets,
> on all those nifty palm thingies. Your local WorldPilot could sync up with
> a central WorldPilot periodically, but you'd still have "all" your data
> available
> while you're off-line*. Same with Xen Project Manager, zSchedule, etc.
> Of course that's just the beginning. A generation of new apps we've not
> dreamed of yet that could make this thing explode, when we figure out
> how to really exploit XML-RPC, and whatever comes next!
> 
> Later,
> Jerry S.
> 
> *  I'm not holding my breath for us all to have wireless persistent IP
>     anytime soon . . .
> 
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