[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope] Zope in Jpython

J. Atwood Jatwood@bwanazulia.com
Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:27:05 -0500


I know this is probably a hot topic and will be much debated but have you
guys at DC looked into this? Are there reasons why this is a good idea? Bad
idea? It seems like a natural way to increase the performance of Zope while
keeping all the power of OO and Python.

J

> From: "Sin Hang Kin" <iekentsin@infoez.com.mo>
> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 06:48:47 +0800
> To: <zope-dev@zope.org>
> Cc: "Zope Admin list" <zope@zope.org>
> Subject: [Zope] Zope in Jpython
> 
> Zope is greate, all reviews say so. Most of the reviews complain the
> documentation.
> 
> I believe all come to known zope have experience the same difficults and all
> those remains can feel the power of zope.
> 
> Not only the documentation is matter. Under the greate architecture, zope is
> inconsistance, non-intutive, and mistiness.
> 
> To be fast to market is not enough, it must also easy to maintain, endure
> greate and fast change to make zope success.
> 
> To make good use of zope, one should paid more attentation on content
> instead of control. Making separation of control and content as deep as
> possible. Write re-usable, structural components.
> 
> I believe the following is very important :
> 
> 1. re-introduce unified naming convention. encourage developers to change
> over this
> 2. move un-necessary codes from the zope kernel to user space: <base> <lang>
> ...
> 3. support of unicode
> 4. make zope content easy to co-operative with current technonlgy especially
> search engines. zope oodb is greate, but it prevent other apps to access the
> data, so it is difficult to contruct a local search facility.
> 5. support cvs style versioning
> 6. multiple output format
> 7. new scripting language, encourage separation of content and control, may
> be more xsl and xpointer style.
> 
> Converting zope to Jpython have the following benefits:
> 
> 1. Unicode support
> 2. draw other java components : for example, several  xml tools being
> develop in Apache.org is very useful.
> 
> If a complete re-write is not economic, at least DC should consider how to
> separate the content and control in zope, make the syntax easy to learn and
> use.
> 
> Rgs,
> 
> Kent Sin
> 
> 
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