[ZWeb] Zope-web syndication

[Paul Everitt]

I guess my answer is that syndication moves content between dissimilar
systems.

--Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ethan mindlace fremen [mailto:mindlace@imeme.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 6:03 AM
> Cc: zope-web@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [ZWeb] Zope-web syndication
> 
> 
> Paul Everitt wrote:
> > 
> > I'll break the tie and declare Karl the winner. :^)  Seriously, what
> > Ethan is describing is better described as mirroring rather than
> > syndication, which has become a pretty well defined term in Internet
> > systems (ICE, RSS, etc.)
> 
> Hm.  As I understand syndication & mirroring, the difference 
> between the two is
> the first presents other's content or services in your 
> context, whilst the
> latter presents the other's content or services "as if" it 
> were that site.
> 
> If we were simply using ZEO as per normal, I would agree that 
> it is mirroring. 
> However, I believe that if the client mounts the database as 
> a subobject in
> their ZODB, they can then present all of the content in 
> whatever form they
> choose (assuming we've structured the data right).  This is 
> what makes me call
> it "syndication" rather than "mirroring".
> 
> ~ethan
> 
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