Large extensibility with the ZOPE application server

The template programming takes place in DTML: DTML tags and HTML code are integrated to templates. These templates contain the actual text bodies, the navigation of the present site is produced completely with DTML. More complex functions are developed in Python for reasons of efficiency. The inclusion of the Python code can either be realised by templates or by so-called ZOPE products. The latter are integrated into the system and as objects available at any place. ZMS is such a complex ZOPE product. ZOPE supports the uncomplicated extension of ZMS by further products (such as forums, newsletters etc.) through his special object model that makes an "inheritance" of such add-ons in the ZMS hierarchy possible.
ZMS offers the following basic features:

• Easy usability, especially when editing and indexing content (web forms)
• Strict separation of content and design
• Universally applicable, modular template model and powerful design concept
• Multilingual publishing model; preformed, extendable content objekt model
• Categorisation concept and library-conformable meta tags for professional content indexing
• Workflow and role concept
• Editorial work tools for efficient processes (notes, alerting, work lists)
• Consistent links, bidirectional links
• Client ability: many websites can be run on one computer and organised in a portal architecture
• XML/XSL interface for document import/export
• Broad extensibility through the basic Zope technologies (DTML, Python; data base interfaces, persistent object orientation and inheritance etc.)
• Production advantage by use of content modules resp. application modules