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Archetypes
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Archetypes is a framework designed to facilitate the building of applications for Plone and CMF. Its main purpose is to provide a common method for building content objects, based on schema definitions. Fields can be grouped for editing, making it very simple to create wizard-like forms.
Archetypes is able to do all the heavy lifting needed to bootstrap a content type, allowing the developer to focus on other things such as business rules, planning, scaling and designing. It provides features such as auto-generation of editing and presentation views.
Archetypes code can be generated from UML using ArchGenXML.
see also:
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ArchGenXML
- ArchGenXML is a code-generator for CMF/Plone applications (Products) based on the Archetypes framework. It parses UML models in XMI-Format (.xmi, .zargo, .zuml), created with applications such as ArgoUML, Poseidon or ObjectDomain. A brief tutorial for ArchGenXML is present on the plone.org site.
by
Michael Richardson
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last modified
January 22, 2007 - 00:43
Contributors:
jensens
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