Contents	10
	Part I Beginner	16
	1 Introduction	18
	1.1 Is this book for me?	18
	1.2 What is Zope?	18
	1.3 The history of Zope	21
	1.4 The Python Programming Language	21
	1.5 About the examples	23
	2 Installing Zope	28
	2.1 Requirements	28
	2.2 Download, compilation and installation	30
	2.3 Setting up a Zope instance	31
	3 The Zope 3 Component Architecture	40
	3.1 Introducing components	40
	3.2 Interfaces	42
	3.3 Content components	44
	3.4 Views	45
	3.5 Adapters	47
	3.6 Utilities	48
	3.7 Services	49
	3.8 Configuring components	50
	3.9 Security	51
	4 Interfaces	56
	4.1 Interface jargon	56
	4.2 Defining interfaces	57
	4.3 Declaring that an object provides an interface	60
	4.4 Verifying implementations	63
	4.5 Schemas	64
	5 Content Components	70
	5.1 Content types	70
	5.2 Schema-based content	74
	5.3 Configuration	78
	5.4 Advanced: Factories	80
	6 Persistency	86
	6.1 The problem of object storage	86
	6.2 Making persistent objects	87
	6.3 Rules of persistency	90
	7 Presenting components on the web	94
	7.1 Schema-based browser views	94
	7.2 Page Templates	97
	7.3 Simple view Page Template	105
	7.4 Advanced: Customizing automatically generated forms	109
	Part II Intermediate	118
	8 Customizing a site’s layout	120
	8.1 Layers and skins	120
	8.2 Page Template macros	123
	8.3 Stylesheets and other resources	131
	9 Internationalization	136
	9.1 Overview	136
	9.2 Message IDs and translation domains	138
	9.3 Internationalizing an application	142
	9.4 Message catalogs	152
	9.5 Advanced: Localization	156
	10 Adapters	162
	10.1 Size	162
	10.2 File representation	166
	10.3 Customizing an existing adapter	172
	11 Automated testing	176
	11.1 Introduction	176
	11.2 Unit tests	178
	11.3 Doctests	182
	11.4 Integration tests	187
	11.5 Running tests	195
	12 Views	200
	12.1 Enhanced browser pages	200
	12.2 Complex views implemented in Python	203
	12.3 Browser menus	212
	12.4 Other HTTP protocols	216
	13 Metadata	226
	13.1 Annotations	226
	13.2 The Dublin Core	230
	13.3 Custom metadata	238
	14 Containers	248
	14.1 Containers, containment, and location	248
	14.2 Constraints and preconditions	254
	14.3 Names of contained objects	260
	14.4 File representation	265
	Part III Expert	270
	15 Events	272
	15.1 Introduction	272
	15.2 Object events	274
	15.3 Sending emails for event notification	281
	16 Vocabularies	294
	16.1 Simple choices	294
	16.2 Theory and applications of vocabularies	295
	16.3 Using vocabularies	301
	17 Sites	306
	17.1 Introduction	306
	17.2 Local utilities	310
	17.3 Virtual hosting	318
	18 Security	324
	18.1 Overview	324
	18.2 Permissions	330
	18.3 Roles	332
	19 Authentication and user management	338
	19.1 Credentials	338
	19.2 Managing principals	345
	19.3 Principal metadata	357
	Part IV Appendices	364
	1 ZAPI Reference	366
	2 ZCML Reference	406
	References	472
	Index	478