Web Component Development with Zope 3 (v. 3) [Hardcover]

Philipp von Weitershausen (Author), P. J. Eby (Foreword)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 3540223592 | ISBN-13: 978-3540223597 | Publication Date: April 19, 2005 | Edition: 1

New Zope 3 is a web applications server written in Python that allows developing complex web applications rapidly and collaboratively. Zope 3 is the successor to the successful version 2.

After an introduction to the key concepts of Zope, a sample application is built and extended subsequently. The book is targeted towards developers familiar with the web and web technologies. Special sections for Zope 2 developers cover the basic differences to the predecessor. The concepts of Zope 3 and its component architecture are explained thoroughly, continually accompanied by a demo application.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The book can be considered the definitive guide to Zope 3. If the reader is looking for a book containing a set of tutorials on creating and using Web applications, this is a great choice."

Pectu Dana, Timisoara, Romania; ACM Computing Reviews, September 2006

"This book is at once thorough, brief, and concise. This is by far the best technical books i've read on any subject.

I have been interested in Zope for almost a year now, but even as a seasoned programmer I was intimidated by its labrythian complexity. I struggled for weeks reading the free Zope material and learning almost nothing. This book presents the material in an accessable manner while shying away from the horrible puns and awful jokes present in so many technical books. This book would be a bargin at twice its price."

D. Morrione, Hemet, CA, amazon.com

 

About the Author

The author's computer programming started out as a hobby and became a profession very quickly. He has been a web developer for many years, having opened his own business during high school already. He started his first Zope project almost half a decade ago and has successfully used Zope in innumerable applications since. A few years ago, when the rewrite of Zope was initiated, he became a developer of Zope 3. He has been continually contributing to Zope and related projects itself since. Currently he is studying Physics at the Dresden University of Technology, while continuing the Internet business.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 467 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (April 19, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540223592
• ISBN-13: 978-3540223597
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,213,328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfection in technical writing, May 5, 2005

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Trevor Goodchild (The City of Angels) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Web Component Development with Zope 3 (v. 3) (Hardcover)

This book is at once thorough, brief, and concise. This is by far the best technical books i've read on any subject.

I have been interested in Zope for almost a year now, but even as a seasoned programmer I was intimidated by its labrythian complexity. I struggled for weeks reading the free Zope material and learning almost nothing. This book presents the material in an accessable manner while shying away from the horrible puns and awful jokes present in so many technical books. This book would be a bargin at twice its price.

Even the books physical construction is outstanding -- it is a hard back with a solid binding, and the cover appears to be some sort of tyvek which is an industrial material you may recognize as the nearly indestructable plastic the US Postal Service uses in some of its mailers. For the older among us, you would recall the material being used as 5.25" floppy sleeves.

A last note, another reviewer mentions having trouble getting the book in the US, I recieved it in about a week with the standard free shipping.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well written and connected, May 10, 2006

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Siddhartha Azad "http://www.ashtophoenix.com" (New York, NY, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Web Component Development with Zope 3 (v. 3) (Hardcover)

I bought this book as a Zope Newbie. I am past 7 chapters at this point and have been able to understand all the concepts presented and also conjured up a small example of my own, to which I am incrementally adding to. The book boasts of the following:

- Well presented chapters with incremental addition of newer concepts.
- Good coverage of Beginner, Intermediate as well as Advanced concepts.
- An application that has been developed incrementally throughout the book, chapter by chapter with downloadable source code.
- Concisely written while being an easy as well as entertaining read.
- The author actually responded to me when I posted a question on the Zope Users Mailing List (see zope.org).

Zope is paradigm change from existing app-server technologies and the author does a good job of helping the reader absorb this. My only beef with the book was that the application source code had some problems with the Zope 3.2 version but this really isn't that big of a deal since one can either simply run it on a previous version of Zope or else, if feeling adventurous, fix the problem.
Definitely Recommended.
-Sid.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent; too bad it's apparently hard to get in the States, April 15, 2005

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G. Poster - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Web Component Development with Zope 3 (v. 3) (Hardcover)

This is the second book on Zope 3 to be published, and where Stephan Richter's book is designed to be more of a cookbook, this is a polished and impressive presentation of the Zope 3 software that will suit many better as a first text. The index leaves a bit to be desired, but it is otherwise an excellent effort.

Springer, the publisher, is a very well respected German publisher; it's really too bad for us Americans that the high price and slow delivery times for this book associated with overseas shipping may deter purchase: it should be a first choice for an introduction.