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

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jeffrey P Shell wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2003, at 7:03 AM, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> 
>>> * Transaction monitoring
>>> * RDBMS backed object persistence framework
>>
>> Got it (SQLObject).
> 
> Alternatively, use the ZODB.  When backed by APE, native RDBMS 
> connections can be used and objects stored in 'natural' RDBMS forms.
> 
> I imagine APE will fit nicely with custom Zope 3 applications that use 
> the Schema model for defining core business/content objects.

Indeed, but SQLObject isn't much different except that it requires you 
to subclass SQLObject instead of Persistent. Ape only would have the 
advantage that you could map already existing Zope3 content types to SQL 
storages. Maybe in the future, we can have a mapper that inspects the 
object's schema and does the rest augomagically :)

Philipp