Why Zope 3?
Ref: http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-users/2006-August/004205.html Zope 3 has: • WSGI-compatible object publisher (zope.publisher) • WSGI-enabled web server (zope.server) and twisted.web2 for server backend • Object datbase (ZODB) for transparently persisting objects; comes with load-balancing support (ZEO). • Component Architecture for making things pluggable very easily (zope.component) • XML-configuration language for registering components (zope.configuration), not mandatory but pretty much standard • Flexible security architecture with pluggable security policies (zope.security) • Good unit, integration and functional testing frameworks (zope.testing, zope.testbrowser) • XHTML-compliant templating language (zope.pagetemplate) • Schema engine and automatic form generation machinery (zope.formlib) • many more core and third-party packages that may already solve some of your problems. See http://svn.zope.org, for instance. Zope 3 is: • ZPL (BSD-ish license) • soon to be owned by