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What is Archetypes?
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Brief presentation of Archetypes.
Archetypes is a framework for developing new content types for a Plone project. Most content management projects involve introducing new types of content, which in the non-trivial case requires an informed understanding of how Zope and the CMF work. Archetypes provides a simple, extensible framework that can ease both the development and maintenance costs of CMF content types while reducing the learning curve for the simpler cases.
Compared to building content types using the stock CMF (through subclassing), Archetypes gives you the following advantages:
- automatically generates forms and views;
- provides a library of stock field types, form widgets, and field validators;
- allows defining custom fields, widgets, and validators;
- automates transformations of rich content;
- a built-in reference engine that gives the ability to link two objects together with a relation; such a "link" from a given object to another one is a Python object called a reference.
Since Plone 2.1, Archetypes has become the de-facto way of developing new content types, and a majority of third party products that are released these days use Archetypes.
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Kamon Ayeva
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last modified
December 1, 2006 - 20:10
Contributors:
Sisi Nutt, Alexander Limi, Martin Aspeli, Marco De Vitis, Raphael Ritz, Maik Röder, Steve McMahon
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