Here's some interesting discussion from ZopeZen:
I am new to Zope/Python. I have been fiddling around with Zope/CMF and Radio Userland. When I started with Zope, I wanted to implement XMLStorageSystem. That way users of Radio Userland can push content into Zope too (either a Zope product or something over CMF). But because of other work was not able to concentrate on it.
But in work place I have been using MS-Word and Radio Userland combination (using PocketSOAP). Simon Fell creator of PocketSOAP has recently released PocketXML-RPC.
Since Zope supports XML-RPC, I have been able to fire some actions (simple things like list object ids, create folder in Zope and also in CMF portal product instances, create a news item etc) from Radio Userland on Zope objects.
PocketSOAP, PocketXML-RPC are native applications which expose COM APIs. It is accessible through VBScript (windows scripting engine) and also through VBA in MS-WORD. I have used PocketSOAP a little bit, to push content from Word to Radio. Since Zope does not support SOAP (to my knowledge), I was not able to use PocketSOAP from MS-WORD to push content or act on Zope objects. Now with PocketXML-RPC I am able to create folders in Zope. Anyone familiar with CMF API's (or when I get to know it a bit more), can create word templates with macros that can do anything on Zope! I will try more this weekend.
Hope it helps,
rajesh babu
I would love to get teachers using Radio frontends to put content into Zope. If I could pay a programmer to work on it, it probably wouldn't take long at all. Perhaps if I had the backing of a major foundation...
Regardless, I'd happily pay the $30 for Radio licenses for teachers and eventually students, so Userland would still make out fine, even if we blow off Frontier servers.
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