Glossary
- 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.
- pysaml2
The pysaml2 library implements the SAML 2.0 specification.
- Sphinx
The documentation for this package is maintained using Sphinx, a tool to create documentation in many formats based on reStructuredText files.
- virtual environment
The Python venv module is used to create lightweight “virtual environments”, each with their own independent set of Python packages installed in their site directories. A virtual environment is created on top of an existing Python installation, known as the virtual environment’s “base” Python, and may optionally be isolated from the packages in the base environment, so only those explicitly installed in the virtual environment are available.
- xmlsec1
The filesystem utility used by the pysaml2 library to handle SAML message signing and encryption. See https://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/ for details.
- zc.buildout
zc.buildout is a Python-based build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications.
- ZCML
XML-based configuration language used by Zope.
- ZEO
The ZEO package enables sharing a Zope Object Database (ZODB) between several Zope instances. It is used to scale a Zope application.
- 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 roleManager
.- Zope
The Z Object Publishing Framework. The granddaddy of Python web frameworks.
- ZODB
The ZODB is the object database included in Zope.