[Long] Development in Zope (Was: Re: [Zope] data point on ease of learning Zope -- I give up.)

[Spinwing]

Hello Cees

the problem you raised is exactly the same problem I am facing. Allow me to
list my problems:

- I am an experienced Java programmer, as well as many other -win- languages
- I want to build a big site with lots of logic
- I want to have a comfortable tool
- I do not want to build tons of classes from scratch.

I have been evaluating a lot of other solutions, including ColdFusion,
Enhydra as app servers, PHP, ASP, and other as languages. After a lot of
headaches, I came out with the idea that unfortunately there are no "all in
one out of the box" solutions. From product A you get abc tools/solutions,
from B you get def and so on. So at the end I decided to stick with Zope,
for many reasons including:

- Perl, maybe IMHO not the best, but terribly efficient and widespread.
- Python, even if I do not like it at all, but after all the important is
that it does it work :))
- XML-RPC so Java for me
- you can hide Zope behind Apache, so you can also use Tomcat, PHP and
whatever.

In the end, a mig mix. But please tell me, where in world can you find an
all in one? I did not, so at least, I will take the advantage of the great
manageabilty of Zope, those tons of "speed-of-light" tools like DTML-IN and
ZSQL methods, and do the rest in the tool I like most for that specific
work.

I do not like it, however, because it lacks consistency, but at least I will
not end up reinventing the weel that somebody has already invented, and
debugged veeeery well, seen the tons of peple using Zope.

Regards
Stefano