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Neutron Protocol
I came across this article post called Neutron Protocol: Separating UI From The CMS which discusses a protocol that exists for essentially allowing client access to the CMS so that developers may create a completely separate UI from that of data submitted/entered into the CMS. There is no problem with this except that it pretty much already exists in the form of XML-RPC. The author makes it seems as if this is a problem but indeed I believe the Neutron Protocol died because it simply wasn't needed. Right now, today, with Zope/CMF or Plone in general. I can expose any method/function/class/object that I want via XML-RPC and even provide get/set methods for data in the context it exists. So for example; if I want to get the top 100 models from a CMS install all I have to do is from zope.app.publisher.xmlrpc import MethodPublisher and derive a class with MethodPublisher as an argument. From here I can use whatever language I want to call these methods effectively allowing me to create a brand new UI. So this stuff is pretty simple using XML-RPC but it'll be interesting to see what if any thing comes of this. If it's light enough it could be useful as an interim to XML-RPC exposure of data/content. At the very least it'd be useful for developers who aren't necessarily intimately familiar with the codebase but want to have their own UI available for content.
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