Features

zetadb acts as a powerfull i*net wizard

• For a well designed database, it is able to find tables and fields definitions
• Using database information and some user decisions, it generates zope objects to manage data over the web
• Resultant objects are able to list, search, filter, view, insert, update and delete records
• Also foreign keys information is used to establish relations between table managers
• A friendly toolbar is generated to link all the objects, and to move between records
• Resultant objects are transparently translatable to any language using GNU gettext utilities
• You also have all the powerfull of zope to manage users and permissions
• If you want something more, you can edit resultant zope objects and add new functionallity

merging zope and openoffice

• zetadb merges all the powerfull of zope with the best free office suite: OpenOffice
• zope pages templates permits dynamize HTML, but also XML content
• OpenOffice has an XML-based internal representation
• zetadb allows you to create "zetadb openoffice" objects, which converts an OpenOffice document into N zope objects
• This zope objects are translatable using zetadb methods
• They area also dynamizeble using TAL / METAL zope languages
• So, with zetadb, you can dynamically obtain OpenOffice documents in your i*net applications, and generate usefull and friendly reports from your database

zetadb generates database independent code

• Applications generated using zetadb will be database independent, working on all zetadb supported databases (present and future ones)
• zetadb generates SQL as standard as possible, using Postgresql syntax in non standard issues
• When working with non-postgresql databases, non standard functions are converted on the fly and sended to the database in its own format
• So, your application can me moved from one database to another without changing anything else than database creation scripts