Bucharest, 23 February 2005 CHM PTK technologies Adriana Baciu Finsiel Romania

2 What is Zope?  A Web server  Zope comes with a built in web server  A Web based interface  you use your web browser to interact with the Zope management interface.  An object database  Mainly all your information is stored using ZOPE objects in the ZODB  Relational integration – works with other relational DBs  Scripting language support (Python, Perl, DTML, TAL, TALES)  Zope provides good programming productivity  Z Object Publishing Environment

3 ZOPE Features  Powerful Collaboration  Simple Content Management  Scalability  Extensible  Rapid content creation and distribution  Platform independence. Zope runs an all widely used operating systems: Linux, Windows NT/2K/XP, Solaris, Open BSD, Free BSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X

4 Zope Features  Has a built-in Web server, but it can run with third-party Web servers  Database integration (Oracle, PostgresSQL, MySQL, Access, LDAP, IMAP)  Built-in security model  Multiple protocol support (HTTP, FTP, SQL, ODBC) and standards (XML, DOM, XML/RPC, SOAP, WebDAV)  Open Source

5 Zope Server  Can be extended with special modules - the products, huge collection of open source Python modules and libraries  Most of Zope is coded in Python scripting language. Critical performance parts were written in C.  Python programming

6 Python  “Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python…” (Peter Norvig, director of search quality at Google, Inc. )Google, Inc.  Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language  Rapid  Portable  Clean syntax  Modules to support web standards and services  Great community of users who creates open source products, modules.

7 Other technologies used  HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)  CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)  DTML (Document Template Markup Language)  ZClasses (to create products the Zope way)  Small Javascript usage