[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] Two visions

Jean-Marc Orliaguet jmo at ita.chalmers.se
Sun Mar 5 08:44:53 EST 2006


Jim Fulton wrote:

> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>>> I think that having one name for two radically different, though 
>>> related,
>>> things is very confusing. There are really
>>> 2 main technologies that people care about:
>>>
>>> 1. The Zope app server. This is characterized by things like an object
>>>    file system, through-the-web scripting and/or development, pluggable
>>>    course-grained add-ons, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> I must warn you that what you call 'app server' is not what I call 
>> app server; I believe that using the word appserver for this set of 
>> technologies could be very confusing to people. I believe Zope 3 is 
>> an application server. I believe, say, Django is an application 
>> server too, even though as far as I know it lacks an object file 
>> system and through the web scripting. Can we find another word for 
>> what you mean?
>
>
> I wasn't trying to define app server.  I was describing the Zope app 
> server.
>
> Jim
>


why not say that the Zope application server is based on the Z 
Foundation Libraries (ZFL) ?

"Z" can be interpreted as being short name for "Zope" without creating a 
new name for it.

which can also be interpreted as the libraries used by the zope 
foundation software (ZF)?

/JM



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