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IMHO, Zope Terminology is the most confusing aspect of the system.  There are lots of concepts that have different names than you are probably use to.  I believe most of these will be addressed by the Zope Book published by O'Reilly.

  * ThroughTheWeb - (aka TTW) the interface interface of ZOPE.  being able to construct objects 'through a web browser'.  This is something the ZOPE community boasts about and uses this acronym quite a bit.  

  * ZSQLMethod - methods invoked that return SQL results

  * Python Script (aka PythonMethods, TTW Python, etc) - free standing python code that is used to seperate logic from content.

  * Acquisition - dynamic inherientence (the URL traversal determines inheritence)

  * External Methods - Python code located on the disk, that is not maintained/edited 'through the web' and is not confined by ZOPE's security model to obey the same laws as TTW scripts/code.

  * DTML Method - kinda like a template, basically the base ZOPE object that allows dtml to be rendered.  takes the namespace from its container.

  * DTML Document - used for content (primarily), dtml can be used.  its namespace is not inheriented from its container.  (although acquisition does still apply)

  * Namespace - this is the root python concept of where variables live.  namespace in ZOPE (as manipulated by DTML) can be somewhat hairy.  but only takes a few examples to go through (ZBook) before you get the jiest.

  * Versions - ZOPE's versions have some limitation, but are continually claimed to be used as 'long running transactions to content'.  versions have some warts (ZSQLMethods and ZCatalog has some oddities w/ versions)

  * Mountable Storage - allows for a flexible data store underneath a ZOPE branch structure.  

  * ZODB - Transactional Distributable Object Database that is the core of ZOPE.  Has multiple Storage implementations, where it can store the underlying structure - Filesystem, BerkeleyDB, Remote (on a another server), Oracle, and more.

  * Transactional Undo - a Undoable Undo
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