[Zope] Question about application design

[Alec Mitchell]

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 11:20 am, Robb Shecter wrote:
> Yes, from my diving into the docs, it looks like that's the route I might
> have to go:
>
> I'll have about 150,000 objects - all in one or two "Sparse Matrix"
> containers I use.  And then I do a Dijkstra-like shortest path finding
> algorithm over the data.
>
> So apparently, I can't just take this data structure and stick it in a
> temp_folder.
>
> It sounds to me like Zope isn't so much an application server as a CMS
> server.  Too bad!  For example, with Tomcat, a Java servlet engine, my
> scenario would be pretty easy to implement.

I think you'll be surprised how easy it is to create a persistent container 
for that data (just inheriting Item.SimpleItem should get you most of the way 
there, then you just create instances of your container data structure as an 
instance variable in the constructor).  Zope is definitely more of an 
application server than a CMS (though with the right products it makes a hell 
of a CMS), it is just a very different way of thinking about the problem than 
a java servlet engine (or really anything else).  Though the ZMI looks like a 
filesystem, it is a very powerful and general persistent object storage with 
a very useful acquisition model.

Good Luck,
Alec Mitchell