Web Component Development with Zope

By Philipp von Weitershausen and Philipp Weitershausen

Book Overview

Zope is a powerful Python web application platform for rapidly and collaboratively developing complex web applications. With version 3, Zope has been rebuilt on top of a Component Architecture that combines the best ideas available from modern web platforms. This new edition details all the changes and new features in Zope 3. It also makes it easier to get started with Zope, incorporating input and suggestions from Zope 3 experts and newcomers alike. In addition, the book addresses the needs of Zope 2 developers who want to use Zope 3 features as they are backported into the Zope 2 platform. The book introduces the key concepts of Zope and its Component Architecture. Each of Zope's capabilities is demonstrated by first building a sample application and then extending it with the addition of more features. The author is a developer of Zope 3 and has been continually contributing to Zope and related projects.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 354076447X
• ISBN13: 9783540764472
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 2.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.8" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

VERY USEFULL

This book is a very good one for start or continue learning about zope development. Novel users and medium ones could find it interesting, cause it start from the very beggining and go deep in most of the concepts. As a zope 3 developer I think it's a real must have.

Must have!

The best book for any Zope 3 developer. Whether you are a newbie, intermediate or advanced Zope developer, you can't go wrong with this book. It explains the Zope environment step-by-step and is written in a very clear way. Most chapters feature nice comparisons between Zope 3, Zope 2, CMF and J2EE. The book is also a great reference for Plone developers, who want to know more about the underlying Zope platform (although Plone 3 mainly uses Zope 2.x technology), or use Zope 3 features backported into the Plone/Zope 2 environment.

If only I bought it earlier

A great book, very clear and helpful. I wish I bought it earlier. The book has made Zope 3 very clear and saved heaps of time.

Well written and connected

I bought this book as a Zope Newbie. I am past 7 chapters at this point and have been able to understand all the concepts presented and also conjured up a small example of my own, to which I am incrementally adding to. The book boasts of the following: - Well presented chapters with incremental addition of newer concepts. - Good coverage of Beginner, Intermediate as well as Advanced concepts. - An application that has been developed incrementally throughout the book, chapter by chapter with downloadable source code. - Concisely written while being an easy as well as entertaining read. - The author actually responded to me when I posted a question on the Zope Users Mailing List (see zope.org). Zope is paradigm change from existing app-server technologies and the author does a good job of helping the reader absorb this. My only beef with the book was that the application source code had some problems with the Zope 3.2 version but this really isn't that big of a deal since one can either simply run it on a previous version of Zope or else, if feeling adventurous, fix the problem. Definitely Recommended. -Sid.

Perfection in technical writing

This book is at once thorough, brief, and concise. This is by far the best technical books i've read on any subject. I have been interested in Zope for almost a year now, but even as a seasoned programmer I was intimidated by its labrythian complexity. I struggled for weeks reading the free Zope material and learning almost nothing. This book presents the material in an accessable manner while shying away from the horrible puns and awful jokes present in so many technical books. This book would be a bargin at twice its price. Even the books physical construction is outstanding -- it is a hard back with a solid binding, and the cover appears to be some sort of tyvek which is an industrial material you may recognize as the nearly indestructable plastic the US Postal Service uses in some of its mailers. For the older among us, you would recall the material being used as 5.25" floppy sleeves. A last note, another reviewer mentions having trouble getting the book in the US, I recieved it in about a week with the standard free shipping.