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Zope – web application server

Zope (Z Object Publishing Environment) is a free and open-source, object-oriented web application server written in the Python programming language.

Zope can help you create dynamic web applications such as portal and intranet sites quickly.

Zope comes with everything needed including support for membership, search, and news.

Key Features

  • Complete and automatic hardware detection.
  • Combines the power of Python, the ZODB object database, and a built-in security system.
  • Built in web server.
  • FTP server.
  • WebDAV server.
  • XML-RPC serving capabilities.
  • Web based interface.
  • Object database – transactional object database which can store not only content and custom data, but also dynamic HTML templates, scripts, a search engine, and relational database (RDBMS) connections and code.
  • Relational integration.
  • Scripting support.
  • Two mechanisms for HTML templating: Dynamic Template Markup Language (DTML) and Zope Page Templates (ZPT).

Website: github.com/zopefoundation/Zope
Support:
Developer: Zope Corporation
License: Zope Public License

Zope is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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