Zope technology
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Zope is written in Python, a highly productive, object-oriented
scripting language. Some of its features:

* `Zope Management Interface (ZMI)`_, a web-based user interface that
  can be used by site administrators to manage sites and even to
  construct new web applications.

* `Zope Page Templates (ZPT)`_, a powerful HTML and XML templating language.

* `Component Architecture`_, Zope's way to make flexible and
  extensible applications out of a collection of reusable components.

* `Zope Object Database (ZODB)`_, a transactional object database for
  storing arbitrary (Python) objects, including content, templates
  and scripts.

* `Relational database adapters`_ for connecting Zope to a wide range
  of relational databases, allowing developers to access these
  databases using SQL.

* The `Catalog`_, a powerful indexing and search engine that supports
  full-text search as well as search on metadata.

* `Integrated security`_. This includes support for authentication
  databases such as LDAP, role-based security, and safe delegation of
  control, allowing control over parts of a website or web application
  to be delegated to others in an organization.

* `Clustering`_ (ZEO). Zope features built-in support for building a
  cluster of multiple Zopes, all serving the same web
  application. This allows Zope to scale when you need it.

* `Internationalization suport`_. Zope offers extensive support for
  internationalization and localization of your web applications,
  along with pervasive unicode support.
 
* `Scripting support`_. [XXX]

* `Extensibility`_. You can extend Zope's functionalities with
  third-party components, and write new components for Zope yourself.

* `Web protocol support`_. Zope supports HTTP, FTP, WebDAV and XML-RPC
  out of the box. Zope is also easily combined with Apache and other
  webservers.

* `Python powered`_. [XXX]

* `Object publishing`_ [XXX]

.. _`Zope Management Interface (ZMI)`: zmi.html
.. _`Zope Page Templates (ZPT)`: zpt.html
.. _`Component Architecture`: ca.html
.. _`Zope Object Database (ZODB)`: zodb.html
.. _`Relational database adapters`: sql.html
.. _`Catalog`: catalog.html
.. _`Integrated security`: security.html
.. _`Clustering`: zeo.html
.. _`Internationalization suport`: i18n.html
.. _`Scripting support`: scripting.html
.. _`Extensibility`: extending.html
.. _`Web protocol support`: protocol.html
.. _`Python powered`: python.html
.. _`Object publishing`: publishing.html

.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
.. _`Zope 3`: http://dev.zope.org/Zope3/
.. _Five: http://codespeak.net/z3/five/
.. _Plone: http://www.plone.org/
.. _CPS: http://www.cps-project.org/
.. _Silva: http://www.infrae.com/products/silva/
.. _SQLObject: http://sqlobject.org/
.. _gettext: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
.. _WSGI: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0333.html
.. _Twisted: http://twistedmatrix.com/