What is Zope 3?
Zope 3 is a production ready free/open source web application framework written in the Python programming language. Zope 3 provides a component architecture, transactional object database, tightly integrated security model and many other features. Zope 3 is coming from the Zope community which is started around 1998. Initially Zope’s core technologies were designed by Zope Corporation. The development of Zope 3 started in late 2001. In November 2004, Zope 3 was released. Zope 3 is a complete rewrite that only preserves the original ZODB object database. The design of Zope 3 is driven by the needs of large companies. It is directly intended for enterprise web application development using the newest development paradigms. Extreme programming development process has a real influence in Zope 3 development. Automated testing is a major strength of Zope 3. Sprints were introduced to help accelerate Zope 3 development. In 2006 Zope foundation was formed to help organize and formalize the rel