Re: open source e-commerce

Pascal Bourguignon wrote:

>> UCW deals with managing user interaction via HTTP and nothing more, no
>> database layer, no user authentication or security nor any content
>> management systems.

> What is Zope?
>
> Zope is an open source web application server primarily written in
> the Python programming language. It features a transactional
> object database which can store not only content and custom data,
> but also dynamic HTML templates, scripts, a search engine, and
> relational database (RDBMS) connections and code. It features a
> strong through-the-web development model, allowing you to update
> your web site from anywhere in the world. To allow for this, Zope
> also features a tightly integrated security model.

> So clearly, Zope is nothing more than UCW. If you want something like
> Zope in Common-Lisp, once again have a strong look at UCW.

Zope is much more than UCW. UCW has no database, Zope has an object
oriented database integrated. UCW provides no security, user managment and
content managment system, Zope does. I've used Zope some time ago: You can
add Python scripts at runtime, which are stored in the integrated database
and executed by URL path or it can be instatiated as a "product" for other
objects and it provides a nice management interface for changing the
content in the database (everything is stored as an object, accessed by an
URL), version management (every change to an object creates a new version
for this object, but you can restore old versions), managing users and user
roles etc.

Would be nice to rewrite Zope in Lisp, because the Python code of Zope is
sometimes chaotic, but writing an e-commerce application with UCW would be
much more work than writing it with Zope.

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