[Zope3-dev] IMPORTANT RFS: Through the Web Site Development

[Jon Whitener]

At 1/13/03 03:22 PM -0700, Jeffrey P Shell wrote:
>ZClasses have helper functions to automatically build forms that Zope 2 "products" lack.  So with ZClasses, most of the time people just define a schema and generate a form that automatically saves the values.

This form generation is perhaps the key attraction of ZClasses; it gives newbies a leg up.  I want to second what Jeffrey said, quoted below.  He has focused on exactly the same point as I tried to express:
  
>Zope 3 already has some similar functionality with the ability to generate an editform off of Schema objects defined in an interface.  I'd like to see that reused in such a way that defining a schema through the web and seeing the Python code that it either creates or impacts is not too different.  This is why modules are important - the ability to grow from defining a schema through a point and click interface to being able to write one by hand should be easy.