More Zope stuff
I have continued digging under the "Zope hood".
I have to admit a real bias for using Java/JavaBeans/servlets/JSPs for writing dynamic web applications, but Zope is close to making me a convert. For one thing, Python is definitely one of my favorite programming languages and scripting in Zope is done both in Python and a tag markup language called DTML which has a similar feel to JSPs.
On one level - creating dynamic web sites using existing Zope products is very simple. The fun begins when modifying existing products or writing your own. I found a product "Simple Message Board" that already had half the functionality that I needed and I have been learning how to do Zope products by alternating between reading online tutorials and carefully reading Python and DTML source code.
In the last few months, I have also written some web services using Cincom VisualWorks Smalltalk. VisualWorks is also a great dynamic web authoring environment.
Dynamic web development: a problem of too many riches!
4:39:48 PM 
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