[Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3 without ZODB

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Sidnei da Silva wrote:
> On 1/21/07, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:
>> Alan Runyan and Sidnei Da Silva created one of the earliest Zope 3
>> applications using SQL Objects. I don't remember the name of their
>> application or what it's status is.  Maybe they'll chime in or you
>> can ask them.
> 
> That was the SIP (Sample Inventory Application). It's available from
> here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sampleinventory. It gave life to
> 'sqlos' (http://codespeak.net/z3/sqlos/), which is a bridge between
> Zope 3 and SQLObject. Namely, it provides some custom adapters for
> implementing folderish views into a database and coordinates the
> SQLObject transaction with the default Transaction Manager in Zope 3.
> 
> It actually used the ZODB just to store a root object that was
> persistent and implemented a dummy interface, so that we could
> register a custom traverser and then delegate to the application from
> there. Since the root object was dummy, the ZODB could be easily
> thrown away.
> 
> Then there is a second one called Snap, which is available from the
> cheeseshop (http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/snap/0.5). This one uses
> most of the approaches discussed here (abusing the 'db' argument,
> registering a custom publisher), except using a different 'main'
> script. It also uses zope.paste
> (http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/zope.paste) so that the application
> could be configured with Paste.

Great stuff. Any chance we could get a main program that uses zope.paste 
into the Zope 3 core?


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