Projects

Zope mainly consists of a large software library, built around a flexible architecture.

You can build your first application in ten minutes with Grok, or learn the full Zope 3 framework.

Projects

Here are the main Zope projects

Zope Component Architecture

The Component Architecture is the central and key part of Zope. It consists of a simple yet powerful object-oriented mechanism that prefers adaptation over inheritance. Learn more...

Zope 3 Libraries

The Zope Libraries are a large collection of python packages, gathered in the Python Package Index. These packages contain components designed to take advantage of the Component Architecture. Learn more...

Zope Object Database

The ZODB provides seamless object persistence in Python. It gets rid of requiring a relational database for your object-oriented application, and provides you with a powerful and safe object store: persistence, transactions, scalability, and more...

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Zope 3

Zope 3 is the innovative web development platform exclusively based on the Zope Component Architecture and the Zope Libraries. It is the result of 10 years of experience acquired in designing web applications with Zope 2. Learn more...

Grok

Grok is a web framework based on Zope 3 that allows extremely fast and agile development. Like many other recent frameworks such as RoR, Django or Pylons, it emphazises the use of conventions over configuration. But by being based on Zope 3, Grok benefits from the full power of this technology. Learn more...

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Zope 2, CMF, Five

The successful Zope 2 application server is still maintained and widely used for major applications like Plone. It can now be extended and improved with a subset of the Zope 3 Libraries, thanks to the Five project.

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