[Zope3-dev] Blueprint Application

[Juergen Rose]

>> In my opinion it would be a good idea to have a sample application for
>> zope3 as a blueprint for own projects. The famous petstore example
>> would be a good option to demonstrate the capabilities of zope3 and
>> could serve as a starting point for new users.
>>
>> Another option could be a implementation of the soa blueprints, but it
>> seems to be just to much, to put effort into it
>> (http://www.middlewareresearch.com/soa-blueprints/), at least for now.
>
> I think a we have a good amount of blueprint applications around. 
> There is
> a ZWiki implementation, a bug tracker and a message board example (from
> the book) available. The first two applications are even part of the 
> the
> Zope 3 core SVN trunk checkout, so that you can just use it, if you 
> use a
> SVN checkout. The messageboard is part of the book repository. You can
> read the README.txt file to see how to get it running. BTW, the book
> contains many other examples that are meant as initial blueprints for
> add-on packages.
>
> Oh, I was a little bit biased about my packages here. There is, of 
> course,
> also the excellent z3-checkins package and Jim's Buddy Demo.
>
> What other blueprints are you looking for?

I didn't meant that there are no good starting points available. A 
implementation of the petstore could be good to have, to promote the 
advantages of zope in the JAVA/.NET camp, for instance. We could 
compare it to the existing applications implemented in JAVA/.NET or 
whatever, architecturewise, speed of development, LoC :-) ...

I admit, its more a promotion gag. On the other hand, all the 
applications you mentioned, are offer quite isolated functionality, 
which is good because it is easy to incorporate into own applications. 
But the petstore would be a complete sample application, with fancy 
skins and stuff hence "a real world application".

Juergen