The Developer's Guide teaches you how to extend Zope. It takes you all the way from a simple "Hello World" application to developing advanced Zope Products. This guide is appropriate for advanced Zope audiences and assumes basic Python knowledge. The Developer's Guide covers Zope 2.x or above.

The Developer's Guide covers Zope topics where the Zope Book leaves off. The guide will not cover any of the fundamental concepts of using zope that are covered in the book including ZClass basics.

Status

10/15/2001 - We've swich to using BackTalk for the online version of the Developer's Guide. Try it out and let us know how you like it. If it seems useful, we'll switch other docs to this format.

07/05/2001 - The Zope 2.4 release of the Developer's Guide is done! All comments have been removed from the text and typos have been significantly reduced. There are now two appendixes.

06/04/2001 - Work continues on the dev guide. We should soon be done removing comments and fixing typos. There's now an acquisition chapter.

04/26/2001 - The rough draft is done! There are still lot of problems, but the material is mostly there.

04/10/2001 - We're making progress. You can now read the guide on Zope.org.

03/15/2001 - Check out the project area. It includes information on the projects scope, topic, outline, etc.

03/13/2001 - The Guide is now a SourceForge project. It includes a CVS repository where your can check out the guide.

Plan

The Developer's Guide is being produced using the documentation process. At this point we're mostly in maintenance mode. We will release a new edition of the guide for each new Zope release.

Contact

Questions and comments should be posted to the bug tracker on SourceForge

How To Contribute

To contribute, you will need a SourceForge account, and you will also need to contact the Project managers. For simple contributions, the patch tracker on the SourceForge project site should suffice. For more advanced contributions, please discuss your potential role with the project managers before beginning any major work on the guide.