[ZODB-Dev] Zope naming hierarchy?

[Jim Fulton]

Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, John D. Heintz wrote:
> 
> > Our application is using indexing based on identify in many places.  Our
> > object model is not hierachy/name based like Zope is, and we have lots of
> > places where object to object indexes make a lot of sense.
> 
> Sorry for the extra spam; I've read this many times before and every time
> I scratch my head. What exactly is this hierarchy/name-based object model
> Zope uses? Does this mean all objects are indexed in a single tree by
> name string?

In Zope, most objects are named and exist in named containers
that are arranged in a hierarchy.  You can thus use paths to 
reference other objects if you want a loose (name-based) coupling
between objects.

Jim

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