The best book for any Zope 3 developer. Whether you are a newbie, intermediate or advanced Zope developer, you can't go wrong with this book. It explains the Zope environment step-by-step and is written in a very clear way. Most chapters feature nice comparisons between Zope 3, Zope 2, CMF and J2EE. The book is also a great reference for Plone developers, who want to know more about the underlying Zope platform (although Plone 3 mainly uses Zope 2.x technology), or use Zope 3 features backported into the Plone/Zope 2 environment.

A great book, very clear and helpful.

I wish I bought it earlier. The book has made Zope 3 very clear and saved heaps of time.

The book seems to be well written, and pretty detailed in it's methods, But for me it is to advanced for what I was looking to get from the book.

Very good book about Zope3. Clear conceptual explanation of the tecnology and easy to understand examples. I'm very impressed with zope3.

I bought this book as a Zope Newbie. I am past 7 chapters at this point and have been able to understand all the concepts presented and also conjured up a small example of my own, to which I am incrementally adding to. The book boasts of the following:

- Well presented chapters with incremental addition of newer concepts.
- Good coverage of Beginner, Intermediate as well as Advanced concepts.
- An application that has been developed incrementally throughout the book, chapter by chapter with downloadable source code.
- Concisely written while being an easy as well as entertaining read.
- The author actually responded to me when I posted a question on the Zope Users Mailing List (see zope.org).

Zope is paradigm change from existing app-server technologies and the author does a good job of helping the reader absorb this. My only beef with the book was that the application source code had some problems with the Zope 3.2 version but this really isn't that big of a deal since one can either simply run it on a previous version of Zope or else, if feeling adventurous, fix the problem.
Definitely Recommended.
-Sid.