Alpha release of ZODB programming guide

[Robert L Hicks]

AMK -

Will there be a PDF of the *final* version?

- Bob

> From: Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org>
> Organization: Baymountain
> Reply-To: akuchlin at mems-exchange.org
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:46:39 -0500
> To: python-list at python.org
> Cc: zope-dev at zope.org, zope-zeo at zope.org
> Subject: Alpha release of ZODB programming guide
> 
> For what seems like half an eternity, I've been working on a ZODB
> programming guide, written for Python programmers who want to use the
> ZODB to store data.  The document is placed under the GNU Free
> Documentation License.  It's still far from being finished, but while
> on vacation I filled it out enough to make it alpha-worthy, though
> note that there are still empty sections.  Please take a look at:
> 
> http://www.amk.ca/zodb/guide/
> 
> What I'd like right now:
> * Suggestions for topics that should be covered.  This would be
> the most helpful.
> 
> * Comments on the organization (ordering of chapters, topics, &c.)
> 
> * Reporting errors and inaccuracies would also be helpful, but
> are less important at the moment.  Getting the outline correct
> is my primary concern at the moment.
> 
> --amk
> 
> Table of contents:
> * 1 Introduction
> + 1.1 What is ZODB?
> + 1.2 OODBs vs. Relational DBs
> + 1.3 What is ZEO?
> + 1.4 About this guide
> * 2 ZODB Programming
> + 2.1 Installing ZODB
> o 2.1.1 Requirements
> o 2.1.2 Installing the Packages
> + 2.2 How ZODB Works
> + 2.3 Opening a ZODB
> + 2.4 Writing a Persistent Class
> + 2.5 Rules for Writing Persistent Classes
> o 2.5.1 Modifying Mutable Objects
> o 2.5.2 Some Special Methods Don't Work
> o 2.5.3 Fixing isinstance and issubclass
> o 2.5.4 __getattr__, __delattr__, and __setattr__
> + 2.6 Writing Persistent Classes
> o 2.6.1 Changing Class Attributes
> * 3 ZEO
> + 3.1 How ZEO Works
> + 3.2 Installing ZEO
> o 3.2.1 Requirements
> o 3.2.2 Installation
> + 3.3 Configuring and Running a ZEO Server
> + 3.4 Testing the ZEO Installation
> + 3.5 Sample Application: chatter.py
> * 4 Transactions and Versioning
> + 4.1 Subtransactions
> + 4.2 Undoing Changes
> + 4.3 Versions
> + 4.4 Multithreaded ZODB Programs
> * 5 Storages
> + 5.1 FileStorage
> + 5.2 BerkeleyStorage
> + 5.3 OracleStorage
> * 6 Related Modules
> + 6.1 ZODB.PersistentMapping
> + 6.2 ZODB.PersistentList
> + 6.3 B-tree Modules
> * A. Resources
> * B. GNU Free Documentation License
>