[sldev] [ANN]{AWG]{PYOGP] Virtual Worlds Open Grid Protocol testing library in Python

[Christian Scholz / Tao Takashi (SL)]

Hi!

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:40 PM, John Hurliman <jhurliman at jhurliman.org> wrote:
> I skimmed over the article but couldn't find any explanation of why. Maybe
> I'm late to the party, but why is a content management system architecture
> being used for a virtual world networking library?

It's not a CMS architecture but simply a small part of the Zope
framework (which in it's completeness is a web application server but
also a python framework if you cut away the web server part).
ZCA gives you IMHO a nice abstraction model for defining components
around interfaces. It handles nothing more.

As for Django, it's a great framework for web apps (although I also
had my issues with it) but what we are trying is not so much a web
app. Right now we neither need a db interface nor a web interface so
it's not that well suited and we use more of a plain python instead of
any framework. ZCA is really just a small layer on top on this plain
python adding the concept of interfaces and providing a global
component registry.

-- Tao



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