Glossary
- Active Directory
- A non-standards-conformant LDAP server implementation sold by
Microsoft.
- Interface
- An attribute of a model object that determines its type. It is an
instance of a zope.interface Interface class.
- PluggableAuthService
- A pluggable Zope 2 authentication and authorization framework
that defines a modular user folder for Zope 2 and Plone.
- python-ldap
- The python-ldap library is
used to communicate with LDAP servers.
- Setuptools
- Setuptools
builds on Python’s distutils to provide easier building,
distribution, and installation of packages.
- Virtualenv
- An isolated Python environment. Allows you to control which
packages are used on a particular project by cloning your main
Python. virtualenv
was created by Ian Bicking.
- ZCML
- XML-based configuration language used by Zope.
- ZMI
- Zope offers the ZMI (Zope Managment Interface) for managing your
Zope site through a browser. You can get to it by going to the
path /manage in your Zope site and logging in with credentials
for a user with role Manager.
- Zope
- The Z Object Publishing Framework. The granddaddy
of Python web frameworks.
- ZODB
- The ZODB is the object database included in
Zope.