Zope is one of the leading open-source Web application servers and content management systems. Designed specifically to publish dynamic content, it is a Web-based publishing system built around a 100% object framework for rapidly deploying enterprise-class content management solutions.
Zope Web Application Construction Kit provides Web developers with both the software and the guidance needed to create content-rich, dynamic Web applications using Zope.
Written by developers at beehive GmbH, one of the world's leading Zope consulting firms, this book is a practical, straightforward guide that clearly shows how to create everything from Web-based polls and surveys to fully developed membership-based portal systems.
This book is designed for any developer who wants to build next generation Web applications using the popular Open Source Web Application Server—Zope.
We hope that this book will help you appreciate how Zope can significantly reduce the time it takes to build complex Web applications.
If you've never downloaded Zope, you'll be surprised to find how small the standard distribution of Zope is (at the time of writing, the .tgz archive or self-extracting Zip archive is less than 5MB). However, when you unzip and/or untar your Zope installation, you'll be pleased to find that it comes with every thing you need to start your first experiments, such as an object-oriented database and Web server.