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Zope Pitfalls

Posted by: bob10038 at 2005-10-16

While I support open source concept and products like Zope, I feel there is still a lot lacking in Zope to make it truly enterprise class and a superior development platform. I believe, a good piece of "technology platform" like Zope, should allow for separation of presentation code, business logic code and data access code. Such separation brings immense benefits. However even a good product like Zope still follows the same old pattern of "in-line" mixing of code, presentation and data access, just like plain old Microsoft ASP or PHP does. The above article has plenty of examples of such code. I am sure the people who built Zope are aware of what I am talking about and I wonder why they did not come up with a better solution.