[Zope3-Users] zalchemy integration

[Carlo Cardelli]

Jeff,

Before everything else, thank you very much for sharing your thoughts 
and experience: as a newcomer, I found them very valuable.

> Hm. It seems like a NameChooser should *somehow* be giving you a
> usable name. That pair::
> 
>    container[name] = content
>    return container[name]
> 
> seems redundant on first look, but it's what gives a bound object in
> typical Zope 3 situations. 

This did not seem redundant to me, even on first look: let's call it a 
"run-time test" of the container...

> However, this is not a typical Zope 3
> situation. Well, it actually brings up the point with which I had so
> much frustration a few months ago: what is a typical Zope 3 situation?

I can only express a newbie point of view: an object or a functionality 
works if you can see it in the ZMI, as this is my first impact with Zope.
 From your answer, I guess I will have to tweak my expectations...

> "Object Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science"
> http://blogs.tedneward.com/2006/06/26/The+Vietnam+Of+Computer+Science.aspx
> 
> :)

I already knew this article; since I am not in a huge corporate 
environment, some points don't apply to me. Thank you for pointing it 
out anyway; I think it is a must-read for everyone working or willing to 
work with O/RMs.

 > I think that my company's recent experiences with Zope and SQLAlchemy
> show that the fundamentals of Zope can be terrific toolkit for rich
> object oriented RDBMS / Business Object backed applications that have
> nothing to do with content management.

Your work seems surprisingly similar to what I want to achieve in the 
long run. Besides, you answered a general question I was thinking to 
post about suitability of Zope for business/no-cm applications.
At the moment, I am still in a "semi-evaluation" phase, so your 
experience somewhat comforts me :)

 > However, we're also massively behind schedule. This
 > project we've been working on has involved a lot more engineering than
 > we foresaw.

This somewhat discomforts me :(



Carlo Cardelli.