Zope and Plone
Thursday, October 4th, 2007So, after weeks of investigating Zope and in more specific Plone which is built using CMF* (Content Management Framework) I was highly impressed. Then, finally being able to get some time I started converting some content from Krang into a Plone product. There have been a couple of hurdles involved; primarily in getting Zope to push out static content. It was suggested that I simply serve everything dynamically but i’m not sure that’s such a good idea, considering the amount of load expected and I’m not sure how to properly construct everything yet. The second suggestion was to use Entransit or CMFDeployment. I am more fond of having the application server and the actual content completely separate. This keeps the problem domains seperate in my head. If one has to worry about the performance of having content entered on-top of having to worry about the performance of serving it. Things get alot more difficult.
Entransit seems to be the real answer but it’s rather new and doesn’t use Plone 3 yet which is what I started with. CMFDeployment also doesn’t work with Plone 3 which means I’ll either have to get that working or retard back to Plone 2.x which I’d really not rather do. Needless to say any of this is years if not decades ahead of Krang.