zope and jboss or weblogic

[Gerhard Häring]

* Wenshan Du <python at dohao.org> [2002-04-26 21:51 -0700]: > hi,
> I like zope, I want to know what's the difference between zope and
> jboss or weblogic? which is better? Can python & zope replace J2EE?
> 
Not only do Zope and J2EE play in a different league, but it's also
different kinds of sports.

J2EE is really only a bunch of so-called enterprise-APIs thrown together
and made sure the versions of the selected APIs work well together.
These APIs include data persistence, distributed computing, others I
don't remember, and last but not least, a web application framework
(servlets) with a everybody-has-it-so-we-too code-in-HTML solution
(JSP). OTOH, I don't know (yet), what ZOPE really is about.

Many of these APIs are overhyped and have a lot of potential to be used
incorrectly, IMO especially EJBs.

If I were to compare J2EE with a Python solution, I'd first construct
something equivalent in Python, i. e. a bunch of similar APIs thrown
together, like "WebWare for Python" (servlets, code-in-HTML, MiddleKit
for object-relational mapping), a distributed computing framework like
PYRO or omniORBpy, etc.

Gerhard
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