Jeff Hoffman

Jeff Hoffman

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A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since February 15, 2000

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February 15, 2000, on Application Servers:
I feel it germane to mention Zope here, for the following reasons:
- Zope is Open Source.
- Zope is written in (mostly) Python, with certain sections optimized in C. Python is an interpreted language, offering much of the same benefits as Tcl provides for this kind of work; namely no compilation, and therefore faster development cycles.
- Zope has a nice reporting language called DTML that, while having faults of its own, improves on the ASP/JSP/?SP syntax (IMHO.)
- Zope includes an Open Source transactional, logging (and thus versioned) object database called ZODB, in which most of your web objects are stored.
- If ZODB doesn't fit the task at hand (i.e. you are doing more writes than reads, or the data needs to be accessable from another system), you can easily store your data in Oracle, Sybase (Sybase officially supports Zope!), ODBC via OpenLink, and a number of other RDBMSs.
- RDBMS connections are pooled (cached, a...