[Zope] Zope in Jpython

[Sin Hang Kin]

Zope is greate, all reviews say so. Most of the reviews complain the
documentation.

I believe all come to known zope have experience the same difficults and all
those remains can feel the power of zope.

Not only the documentation is matter. Under the greate architecture, zope is
inconsistance, non-intutive, and mistiness.

To be fast to market is not enough, it must also easy to maintain, endure
greate and fast change to make zope success.

To make good use of zope, one should paid more attentation on content
instead of control. Making separation of control and content as deep as
possible. Write re-usable, structural components.

I believe the following is very important :

1. re-introduce unified naming convention. encourage developers to change
over this
2. move un-necessary codes from the zope kernel to user space: <base> <lang>
...
3. support of unicode
4. make zope content easy to co-operative with current technonlgy especially
search engines. zope oodb is greate, but it prevent other apps to access the
data, so it is difficult to contruct a local search facility.
5. support cvs style versioning
6. multiple output format
7. new scripting language, encourage separation of content and control, may
be more xsl and xpointer style.

Converting zope to Jpython have the following benefits:

1. Unicode support
2. draw other java components : for example, several  xml tools being
develop in Apache.org is very useful.

If a complete re-write is not economic, at least DC should consider how to
separate the content and control in zope, make the syntax easy to learn and
use.

Rgs,

Kent Sin