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.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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.. _contents:
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|cubicweb| - The Semantic Web is a construction game!
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|cubicweb| is a semantic web application framework, licensed under the LGPL,
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that empowers developers to efficiently build web applications by reusing
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components (called `cubes`) and following the well known object-oriented design
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principles.
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Its main features are:
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* an engine driven by the explicit :ref:`data model
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  <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationDataModel>` of the application,
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* a query language named :ref:`RQL <RQL>` similar to W3C's SPARQL,
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* a :ref:`selection+view <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationCustomViews>`
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  mechanism for semi-automatic XHTML/XML/JSON/text generation,
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* a library of reusable :ref:`components <Cube>` (data model and views) that
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  fulfill common needs,
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* the power and flexibility of the Python_ programming language,
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* the reliability of SQL databases, LDAP directories, Subversion and Mercurial
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  for storage backends.
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Built since 2000 from an R&D effort still continued, supporting 100,000s of
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daily visits at some production sites, |cubicweb| is a proven end to end solution
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for semantic web application development that promotes quality, reusability and
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efficiency.
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The unbeliever will read the :ref:`Tutorials`.
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The hacker will join development at the forge_.
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The impatient developer will move right away to :ref:`SetUpEnv` then to :ref:`ConfigEnv`.
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The chatter lover will join the `jabber forum`_, the `mailing-list`_ and the blog_.
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.. _Logilab: http://www.logilab.fr/
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.. _forge: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/
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.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
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.. _`jabber forum`: http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/6718
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.. _`mailing-list`: http://lists.cubicweb.org/mailman/listinfo/cubicweb
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.. _blog: http://www.cubicweb.org/blog/1238
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.. toctree::
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   intro/index
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   tutorials/index
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   devweb/index
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   additionnal_services/index
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   annexes/index
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See also:
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* the :ref:`genindex`,
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* the :ref:`modindex`,