Summary of concepts
We summarize some terms and concepts so we can all agree on how we
refer to things in discussions.
- Zope 2
- the Zope 2 application server.
- Zope 3 (preferred: Zope 3 application server)
- Zope 3 as an application server, includes a way to create projects.
Currently also contains the ZMI. Since 2010, Zope 3 as an application server
has been renamed to BlueBream.
- BlueBream
- BlueBream is the new name of Zope 3 as an application server. It consists
of a project template and it uses the Zope Toolkit. It also provides a
migration path from Zope 3.4.
- Grok web framework
- Grok, very similar to BlueBream, but with extra Grok libraries and policy,
and Grok community.
- Repoze
- a set of libraries that builds on Zope technology, reuse Zope concepts and
expand on Zope technology.
- CMF
- The Content Management Framework for Zope 2, on which are based applications
such as Plone or CPS.
- Plone
- a CMS based on Zope 2 and the CMF.
- Zope Toolkit
- the collection of Zope Toolkit libraries. Neither includes the ZMI nor
includes a particular way to create a project.
- Zope Toolkit release
- a set of Zope Toolkit library versions that have been tested to work
together. This set receives a collective version number (“Zope Toolkit
1.0”). A release could simply consist of a list of version numbers.