[Zope] Zope, Plone, J2ee?

[Andres Valenciano]

Hi,

I am in the process of reviewing the design and features for version 2
of one of my company's internal applications ( for external clients,
etc ). The first version was developed using Java with  Struts and
Tiles.

I have now a "big question". There's a lot of features in Plone that I
would like to implement ( events, calendars, preferences,
cross-browser support ) basic stuff that I have to implement from
scratch in a j2ee app.

This application is a transactional one, inventory management,
notifications, reports, etc. Is Zope or Plone able to work under this
type of application? I am asking because Plone ( and Zope I think )
are referred as Content Management Systems and I can't find info about
potentially heavy transactional systems working on top of this
systems.

The question is not if Zope or Plone are great because they are, but
if they are a good ( better? ) platform for this other type of web
applications, can it scale to support database/messaging  transactions
with potentially complex business logic for thousands of users?


Thanks for your comments,

And.