[Zope] [ANN] PropertyTools 2.0 released

[Maik Jablonski]

Hi,

yesterday I've released PropertyTools - the successor of
PropertyObject/-folder.

What the hell are PropertyTools good for?

If you want to "prototype" object-oriented database-applications with Zope,
PropertyTools will provide you with handy data-storages. If you get the
idea behind PropertyTools (and the object-factory-tool AbracadabraObject),
you can create simple database-applications based on the ZMI within 5
minutes (of course you can create complex applications with PropertyTools
too, I've done some complex apps like univerisity-course-management-systems
with lots of relations etc. based on PropertyTools in the last months which
run nicely in production). 

If you spend just some additional minutes, you'll be done with a customized
webapplication within 2 hours...:) Think of PropertyTools-Objects as
lockable & sortable & workflowable ZMI-propertysheets which can be
synchronized via a virtual class-attribute (object_type). Additionaly you
can define different templates for rendering each virtual
PropertyTools-class. 

Creating a simple faq-database or a contact-database with PropertyTools can
be done in minutes, not hours... I'll promise!

What's changed to 1.x?

- Added PropertyFile besides PropertyObject & PropertyFolder

- Added simple demo.zexp (a faq-database) to demonstrate
how to use PropertyTools.

- Updated property-sheets to Zope2.7-templates.

- Refactored all code for managing the propertysheets into
a new Mixin-Class PropertyTools.

- Added additional Top/Buttom-Buttons for ordering properties.
Thanks to Steve McMahon for his patches!

- Fixed a bug in manage_changeProperties. Keyword-Arguments
were broken for empty REQUESTs. Thanks to Abel Deuring!

- Removed support for published-attribute. Added support
for simple workflows based on PythonScripts.

- Removed PropertyObjectDescription.

Where can I download PropertyTools?

http://mjablonski.zope.de/PropertyTools

(and you should also download)

http://mjablonski.zope.de/AbracadabraObject

Keep zoped,

Cheers, Maik