Zope is an important open-source application server that is increasingly being used by large organizations such as Viacom, NATO, AARP, Bell Atlantic Mobile (Verizon Wireless), Red Hat, NASA, and the US Navy.
The forthcoming new version, Zope 3, is expected to two to three years ahead of its time, thanks to a sophisticated component architecture similar to the ones found in COM and CORBA. In addition to its renowned security and remote updating abilities, it also comes with several new features that developers have been waiting for, including the ZODB transaction mechanism, I18n/L10n support, a powerful workflow engine, an advanced security model, several templating capabilities, and much more.
Zope Developer's Cookbook concentrates on covering the tasks that an application developer would want to learn how to accomplish in order to implement Zope 3, and it also includes an advanced introduction to what's new in Zope 3. New developers will use this first-to-market, solutions-oriented, task-based reference on a daily basis as they build powerful Web applications with Zope.
I Zope 3 from a User’s Point of View
II The Ten-Thousand-Foot View
III Content Components-The Basics
IV Content Components-Advanced Techniques
V Other Components
VI Advanced Topics
VII Writing Tests