[Zope3-dev] Zope3 as a "generic" application server

[Iwan van der Kleyn]

Hi there,
At the moment the focal point for development projects at my company is 
either Java/JBoss or C#/DOT.NET. I'm hoping to add Zope2 to this list 
for web-specific/CMS related endavours. Without getting into a silly 
struggle about definitions and comparissons ("my app server is 
bigger/better than yours"),  I would like to pose the following 
question:  do Zope Corporation and the alligned Community intend to 
position Zope3 as a "generic" application server or will it, like its 
predecessor, mainly be used as a web application server.

My personal view of such an app server would be a application which 
provides the developer with for example:
 * component based architecture
 * integrated fault-tolerance/scalability facilities (ie 
load-balancing/clustering)
 * network centric architecture which can support multiple protcols
 * multiple client-tier servives like web-presentation tiers, but also 
for example SOAP web services
 * Transaction monitoring
 * RDBMS backed object persistence framework

over the top you can intepret my question to be: "is Zope3 going to be 
like JBoss, but then written in/for Python (and pleasurable to work with :-)

Regards,

Iwan